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2018 Todd County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Todd County, MN went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1224th 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 Todd 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 | June 15, 2018 17:45 | June 15, 2018 23:00 | 5h 15m | 2,449 | 2,235 |
| 2 | April 29, 2018 22:30 | April 30, 2018 01:45 | 3h 15m | 2,381 | 7,733 |
| 3 | May 20, 2018 02:00 | May 20, 2018 02:30 | 30m | 2,378 | 596 |
| 4 | June 26, 2018 16:45 | June 26, 2018 17:30 | 45m | 1,920 | 1,440 |
| 5 | September 1, 2018 01:30 | September 1, 2018 10:00 | 8h 30m | 1,036 | 2,212 |
| 6 | June 30, 2018 05:15 | July 1, 2018 02:45 | 21h 30m | 967 | 9,256 |
| 7 | October 10, 2018 02:00 | October 10, 2018 05:15 | 3h 15m | 890 | 986 |
| 8 | May 14, 2018 14:30 | May 15, 2018 00:00 | 9h 30m | 758 | 1,676 |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 15:45 | June 11, 2018 17:15 | 1h 30m | 731 | 914 |
| 10 | June 11, 2018 18:00 | June 11, 2018 20:45 | 2h 45m | 730 | 1,460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 40 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Todd 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 | 1.6 hrs | 1.38 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2018 | 86 min | 0.73 | 74 min | 0.70 |
| City of Staples- (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 ÷ 13,003 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. Todd County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Todd 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/todd-county