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2019 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 2,535 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2494th 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 Lincoln 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 | April 11, 2019 03:30 | April 14, 2019 22:15 | 3d 18h | 26 | 2,135 |
| 2 | February 4, 2019 03:45 | February 4, 2019 10:45 | 7h | 23 | 161 |
| 3 | May 3, 2019 20:00 | May 3, 2019 22:15 | 2h 15m | 23 | 52 |
| 4 | July 20, 2019 13:30 | July 20, 2019 16:45 | 3h 15m | 23 | 75 |
| 5 | August 22, 2019 16:00 | August 22, 2019 17:15 | 1h 15m | 23 | 29 |
| 6 | December 11, 2019 08:00 | December 11, 2019 11:15 | 3h 15m | 23 | 58 |
| 7 | July 12, 2019 13:15 | July 12, 2019 22:30 | 9h 15m | 2 | 19 |
| 8 | January 15, 2019 16:30 | January 15, 2019 18:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | February 9, 2019 19:15 | February 9, 2019 19:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | April 7, 2019 06:15 | April 7, 2019 07:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 0 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 3.62 | 2.0 hrs | 2.88 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county