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2018 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 6,739 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1543rd 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 Yellow Medicine 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 5, 2018 16:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 8h 15m | 575 | 2,446 |
| 2 | April 30, 2018 12:30 | April 30, 2018 14:45 | 2h 15m | 477 | 632 |
| 3 | May 23, 2018 14:45 | May 23, 2018 21:45 | 7h | 477 | 1,064 |
| 4 | May 29, 2018 23:30 | May 30, 2018 00:15 | 45m | 477 | 358 |
| 5 | July 4, 2018 14:00 | July 4, 2018 20:00 | 6h | 377 | 1,146 |
| 6 | July 21, 2018 15:00 | July 21, 2018 18:30 | 3h 30m | 149 | 522 |
| 7 | August 16, 2018 13:45 | August 16, 2018 16:45 | 3h | 53 | 134 |
| 8 | July 9, 2018 19:30 | July 9, 2018 21:45 | 2h 15m | 21 | 33 |
| 9 | November 19, 2018 17:45 | November 19, 2018 19:15 | 1h 30m | 19 | 16 |
| 10 | February 17, 2018 17:15 | February 17, 2018 18:45 | 1h 30m | 17 | 26 |
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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county