County annual report · FIPS 27041
2019 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,904 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2812th 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 Douglas 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 | December 25, 2019 01:00 | December 25, 2019 07:00 | 6h | 437 | 2,034 |
| 2 | December 29, 2019 10:15 | December 29, 2019 12:45 | 2h 30m | 169 | 423 |
| 3 | December 20, 2019 00:00 | December 20, 2019 11:30 | 11h 30m | 23 | 223 |
| 4 | September 20, 2019 13:00 | September 20, 2019 15:00 | 2h | 17 | 30 |
| 5 | December 1, 2019 05:30 | December 1, 2019 11:45 | 6h 15m | 12 | 50 |
| 6 | January 7, 2019 07:15 | January 7, 2019 09:00 | 1h 45m | 8 | 8 |
| 7 | November 20, 2019 15:30 | November 20, 2019 18:15 | 2h 45m | 7 | 19 |
| 8 | September 26, 2019 09:45 | September 26, 2019 17:30 | 7h 45m | 5 | 39 |
| 9 | November 21, 2019 15:15 | November 21, 2019 15:30 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | December 16, 2019 16:30 | December 16, 2019 17:45 | 1h 15m | 3 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 2 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 | 1.6 hrs | 1.38 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| City of Alexandria - (MN) | 2018 | 6 min | 0.08 | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county