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2018 Clearwater County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clearwater County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 476 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2667th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clearwater County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 8, 2018 14:30 | July 8, 2018 18:30 | 4h | 96 | 33 |
| 2 | August 12, 2018 09:00 | August 12, 2018 09:15 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 3 | August 12, 2018 10:15 | August 12, 2018 10:30 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 4 | August 12, 2018 11:30 | August 12, 2018 11:45 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 5 | August 12, 2018 13:45 | August 12, 2018 14:00 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 6 | June 30, 2018 04:00 | June 30, 2018 22:00 | 18h | 24 | 186 |
| 7 | June 30, 2018 22:45 | June 30, 2018 23:00 | 15m | 17 | 4 |
| 8 | June 30, 2018 23:45 | July 1, 2018 05:45 | 6h | 17 | 62 |
| 9 | July 1, 2018 06:45 | July 1, 2018 08:45 | 2h | 14 | 21 |
| 10 | July 1, 2018 09:45 | July 1, 2018 10:15 | 30m | 14 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Clearwater County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.30 | 1.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bagley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,121 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Clearwater County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clearwater County, MN annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/minnesota/clearwater-county