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2019 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 7,266 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2410th 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 Chippewa 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 | May 14, 2019 19:00 | May 14, 2019 22:15 | 3h 15m | 2,475 | 4,699 |
| 2 | May 14, 2019 23:15 | May 15, 2019 03:00 | 3h 45m | 912 | 943 |
| 3 | February 8, 2019 11:30 | February 8, 2019 12:00 | 30m | 117 | 59 |
| 4 | June 12, 2019 12:15 | June 12, 2019 14:00 | 1h 45m | 51 | 77 |
| 5 | January 17, 2019 14:45 | January 17, 2019 19:45 | 5h | 37 | 69 |
| 6 | January 20, 2019 17:00 | January 20, 2019 18:15 | 1h 15m | 33 | 41 |
| 7 | June 21, 2019 17:15 | June 22, 2019 00:15 | 7h | 25 | 164 |
| 8 | May 23, 2019 19:15 | May 23, 2019 20:45 | 1h 30m | 24 | 32 |
| 9 | July 14, 2019 21:30 | July 15, 2019 01:45 | 4h 15m | 24 | 51 |
| 10 | April 23, 2019 20:30 | April 23, 2019 22:30 | 2h | 23 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 3 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county