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2018 Norman County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Norman County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 273 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2653rd 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 Norman County, 2018
The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 3, 2018 03:45 | July 3, 2018 06:00 | 2h 15m | 91 | 182 |
| 2 | October 28, 2018 02:15 | October 28, 2018 03:15 | 1h | 90 | 90 |
| 3 | July 14, 2018 18:30 | July 14, 2018 19:00 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | July 24, 2018 19:15 | July 24, 2018 19:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | December 2, 2018 23:30 | December 2, 2018 23:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
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 Norman 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 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ada - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Halstad - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelly - (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 ÷ 1,952 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. Norman County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norman 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/norman-county