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2018 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,082 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2540th 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 Lincoln 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 | February 21, 2018 11:15 | February 21, 2018 11:45 | 30m | 23 | 6 |
| 2 | April 13, 2018 22:15 | April 14, 2018 19:00 | 20h 45m | 23 | 378 |
| 3 | July 3, 2018 12:00 | July 3, 2018 17:00 | 5h | 23 | 115 |
| 4 | July 13, 2018 21:15 | July 14, 2018 02:15 | 5h | 23 | 109 |
| 5 | August 5, 2018 09:15 | August 5, 2018 12:45 | 3h 30m | 23 | 81 |
| 6 | September 3, 2018 19:00 | September 4, 2018 04:30 | 9h 30m | 23 | 219 |
| 7 | December 2, 2018 10:00 | December 2, 2018 13:45 | 3h 45m | 23 | 86 |
| 8 | December 7, 2018 11:45 | December 7, 2018 13:30 | 1h 45m | 23 | 40 |
| 9 | October 27, 2018 09:00 | October 27, 2018 10:30 | 1h 30m | 4 | 6 |
| 10 | July 4, 2018 15:30 | July 4, 2018 23:30 | 8h | 3 | 17 |
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 Lincoln 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 3.62 | 2.0 hrs | 2.88 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county