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2019 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,161 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2767th 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 Meeker 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 22:00 | April 11, 2019 22:45 | 45m | 351 | 263 |
| 2 | July 3, 2019 23:15 | July 4, 2019 01:45 | 2h 30m | 345 | 334 |
| 3 | September 3, 2019 02:30 | September 3, 2019 23:30 | 21h | 61 | 1,141 |
| 4 | July 9, 2019 20:45 | July 10, 2019 01:45 | 5h | 44 | 100 |
| 5 | May 23, 2019 15:00 | May 23, 2019 16:00 | 1h | 42 | 42 |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 14:15 | October 31, 2019 17:15 | 3h | 21 | 59 |
| 7 | January 1, 2019 14:15 | January 1, 2019 17:15 | 3h | 14 | 36 |
| 8 | June 7, 2019 10:15 | June 7, 2019 16:45 | 6h 30m | 9 | 51 |
| 9 | May 20, 2019 20:30 | May 20, 2019 21:00 | 30m | 7 | 4 |
| 10 | July 16, 2019 22:30 | July 17, 2019 04:00 | 5h 30m | 6 | 16 |
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 Meeker 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 Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county