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2018 Lyon County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lyon County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,971 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2508th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lyon 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 | March 9, 2018 21:15 | March 10, 2018 00:00 | 2h 45m | 1,134 | 1,357 |
| 2 | October 24, 2018 10:15 | October 24, 2018 11:00 | 45m | 531 | 398 |
| 3 | March 5, 2018 17:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 8h | 349 | 908 |
| 4 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 05:15 | 2h | 168 | 221 |
| 5 | August 19, 2018 13:30 | August 19, 2018 18:00 | 4h 30m | 136 | 109 |
| 6 | July 6, 2018 15:30 | July 6, 2018 17:15 | 1h 45m | 57 | 86 |
| 7 | April 26, 2018 20:30 | April 26, 2018 23:30 | 3h | 56 | 154 |
| 8 | July 13, 2018 21:15 | July 14, 2018 04:15 | 7h | 46 | 219 |
| 9 | February 21, 2018 11:30 | February 21, 2018 11:45 | 15m | 45 | 11 |
| 10 | April 13, 2018 22:45 | April 14, 2018 19:00 | 20h 15m | 45 | 743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lyon 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Marshall - (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 ÷ 12,443 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. Lyon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lyon 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/lyon-county