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2018 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 8,499 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2287th 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 Redwood 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 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 06:45 | 3h 30m | 1,207 | 3,114 |
| 2 | June 18, 2018 08:00 | June 18, 2018 15:15 | 7h 15m | 384 | 1,212 |
| 3 | July 3, 2018 15:30 | July 3, 2018 19:45 | 4h 15m | 308 | 321 |
| 4 | January 4, 2018 11:00 | January 4, 2018 12:30 | 1h 30m | 282 | 363 |
| 5 | May 24, 2018 21:45 | May 24, 2018 23:00 | 1h 15m | 281 | 351 |
| 6 | June 22, 2018 01:30 | June 22, 2018 04:15 | 2h 45m | 281 | 703 |
| 7 | October 4, 2018 02:30 | October 4, 2018 06:30 | 4h | 280 | 1,120 |
| 8 | November 6, 2018 09:15 | November 6, 2018 19:15 | 10h | 151 | 520 |
| 9 | December 1, 2018 20:45 | December 1, 2018 23:00 | 2h 15m | 151 | 340 |
| 10 | October 15, 2018 17:15 | October 15, 2018 18:30 | 1h 15m | 142 | 178 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 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 Redwood 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| Redwood Falls Public Util 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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county