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2019 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2397th 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 McLeod 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 | May 22, 2019 01:00 | May 22, 2019 15:15 | 14h 15m | 1,699 | 8,702 |
| 2 | November 18, 2019 22:30 | November 19, 2019 00:45 | 2h 15m | 1,637 | 1,680 |
| 3 | July 28, 2019 21:00 | July 29, 2019 03:45 | 6h 45m | 688 | 3,774 |
| 4 | September 3, 2019 03:00 | September 3, 2019 07:00 | 4h | 575 | 1,152 |
| 5 | June 27, 2019 14:00 | June 27, 2019 21:00 | 7h | 401 | 686 |
| 6 | December 30, 2019 19:30 | December 30, 2019 20:15 | 45m | 380 | 192 |
| 7 | March 12, 2019 14:30 | March 12, 2019 21:00 | 6h 30m | 152 | 978 |
| 8 | July 26, 2019 11:45 | July 26, 2019 20:00 | 8h 15m | 86 | 378 |
| 9 | December 3, 2019 14:45 | December 3, 2019 16:45 | 2h | 66 | 132 |
| 10 | April 11, 2019 13:15 | April 13, 2019 02:15 | 1d 13h | 60 | 225 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 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 McLeod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson 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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county