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2019 Kandiyohi County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kandiyohi County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1824th 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 Kandiyohi 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 | September 3, 2019 02:15 | September 3, 2019 21:45 | 19h 30m | 2,534 | 39K |
| 2 | February 8, 2019 06:45 | February 8, 2019 13:45 | 7h | 1,075 | 1,688 |
| 3 | July 3, 2019 23:45 | July 4, 2019 00:45 | 1h | 1,027 | 715 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 22:00 | April 11, 2019 23:30 | 1h 30m | 1,023 | 768 |
| 5 | May 14, 2019 19:00 | May 14, 2019 22:15 | 3h 15m | 791 | 2,571 |
| 6 | May 15, 2019 01:45 | May 15, 2019 02:45 | 1h | 791 | 791 |
| 7 | March 15, 2019 17:15 | March 16, 2019 00:45 | 7h 30m | 606 | 1,419 |
| 8 | May 10, 2019 12:00 | May 10, 2019 20:30 | 8h 30m | 478 | 1,944 |
| 9 | April 11, 2019 17:15 | April 11, 2019 21:15 | 4h | 263 | 734 |
| 10 | November 11, 2019 19:45 | November 11, 2019 22:30 | 2h 45m | 193 | 320 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Kandiyohi 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities | 2018 | 8 min | 0.17 | 8 min | 0.17 |
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 ÷ 20,235 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. Kandiyohi County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kandiyohi 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/kandiyohi-county