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2019 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2630th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2019
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 20, 2019 14:15 | June 20, 2019 15:45 | 1h 30m | 669 | 1,004 |
| 2 | October 17, 2019 16:00 | October 17, 2019 20:30 | 4h 30m | 667 | 942 |
| 3 | October 28, 2019 14:00 | October 28, 2019 14:15 | 15m | 667 | 167 |
| 4 | January 25, 2019 05:00 | January 25, 2019 14:45 | 9h 45m | 619 | 5,831 |
| 5 | January 25, 2019 16:00 | January 25, 2019 16:45 | 45m | 482 | 362 |
| 6 | September 3, 2019 14:30 | September 3, 2019 14:45 | 15m | 480 | 120 |
| 7 | September 3, 2019 00:00 | September 3, 2019 04:45 | 4h 45m | 435 | 892 |
| 8 | January 27, 2019 15:45 | January 27, 2019 18:45 | 3h | 263 | 271 |
| 9 | August 19, 2019 14:00 | August 19, 2019 14:15 | 15m | 260 | 65 |
| 10 | August 18, 2019 01:00 | August 18, 2019 11:15 | 10h 15m | 200 | 1,156 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 15 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| 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 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2018 | 8 min | 0.52 | 8 min | 0.52 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/minnesota/becker-county