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2019 Lyon County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lyon County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1778th 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 Lyon 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 | October 4, 2019 13:30 | October 4, 2019 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,217 | 1,962 |
| 2 | April 11, 2019 03:30 | April 15, 2019 18:00 | 4d 14h | 832 | 19K |
| 3 | June 15, 2019 19:30 | June 16, 2019 01:30 | 6h | 634 | 2,119 |
| 4 | October 22, 2019 00:45 | October 22, 2019 07:30 | 6h 45m | 634 | 1,747 |
| 5 | July 1, 2019 01:45 | July 1, 2019 23:30 | 21h 45m | 633 | 1,043 |
| 6 | August 2, 2019 16:30 | August 2, 2019 19:45 | 3h 15m | 593 | 1,040 |
| 7 | October 15, 2019 16:00 | October 15, 2019 18:30 | 2h 30m | 586 | 1,028 |
| 8 | December 29, 2019 11:00 | December 29, 2019 15:15 | 4h 15m | 534 | 1,870 |
| 9 | May 9, 2019 07:15 | May 9, 2019 11:15 | 4h | 193 | 429 |
| 10 | February 5, 2019 12:15 | February 5, 2019 15:15 | 3h | 104 | 312 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 Lyon 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Marshall - (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 ÷ 12,443 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. Lyon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lyon 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/lyon-county