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2018 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 5,647 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1946th 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 Wilkin 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 | September 5, 2018 12:30 | September 5, 2018 12:45 | 15m | 460 | 115 |
| 2 | June 17, 2018 02:45 | June 17, 2018 05:45 | 3h | 405 | 1,118 |
| 3 | August 8, 2018 15:45 | August 9, 2018 12:00 | 20h 15m | 178 | 1,036 |
| 4 | June 6, 2018 05:45 | June 6, 2018 12:00 | 6h 15m | 137 | 318 |
| 5 | May 8, 2018 13:45 | May 8, 2018 14:30 | 45m | 115 | 86 |
| 6 | October 2, 2018 16:15 | October 2, 2018 18:15 | 2h | 100 | 200 |
| 7 | July 4, 2018 10:00 | July 4, 2018 13:00 | 3h | 91 | 268 |
| 8 | March 19, 2018 22:30 | March 20, 2018 01:30 | 3h | 89 | 267 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 07:00 | May 1, 2018 10:00 | 3h | 89 | 267 |
| 10 | June 29, 2018 10:00 | June 29, 2018 12:45 | 2h 45m | 89 | 245 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county