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2019 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2566th 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 Clay 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 29, 2019 18:15 | June 30, 2019 15:45 | 21h 30m | 2,562 | 5,459 |
| 2 | September 2, 2019 23:30 | September 3, 2019 21:00 | 21h 30m | 1,673 | 7,562 |
| 3 | January 30, 2019 10:00 | January 30, 2019 15:00 | 5h | 732 | 750 |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 21:45 | February 24, 2019 22:00 | 15m | 731 | 183 |
| 5 | June 8, 2019 19:00 | June 9, 2019 02:00 | 7h | 728 | 3,858 |
| 6 | February 8, 2019 23:00 | February 9, 2019 03:00 | 4h | 566 | 1,340 |
| 7 | October 9, 2019 13:45 | October 9, 2019 16:45 | 3h | 209 | 585 |
| 8 | December 29, 2019 11:00 | December 30, 2019 02:30 | 15h 30m | 123 | 780 |
| 9 | December 25, 2019 22:00 | December 26, 2019 01:15 | 3h 15m | 119 | 355 |
| 10 | June 5, 2019 15:15 | June 5, 2019 16:00 | 45m | 85 | 64 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2018 | 24 min | 1.55 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county