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2019 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 15.8 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 303rd 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 Murray 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 04:15 | April 15, 2019 23:30 | 4d 19h | 2,084 | 71K |
| 2 | July 6, 2019 03:15 | July 6, 2019 06:15 | 3h | 1,257 | 1,261 |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 14:00 | July 22, 2019 20:00 | 2d 6h | 575 | 5,219 |
| 4 | July 4, 2019 09:45 | July 4, 2019 16:00 | 6h 15m | 441 | 1,142 |
| 5 | December 21, 2019 23:30 | December 22, 2019 02:15 | 2h 45m | 382 | 1,020 |
| 6 | August 30, 2019 02:45 | August 30, 2019 08:30 | 5h 45m | 176 | 1,012 |
| 7 | November 30, 2019 09:00 | November 30, 2019 15:30 | 6h 30m | 122 | 764 |
| 8 | August 24, 2019 17:00 | August 24, 2019 19:15 | 2h 15m | 48 | 57 |
| 9 | June 5, 2019 00:30 | June 5, 2019 03:45 | 3h 15m | 41 | 80 |
| 10 | May 14, 2019 00:30 | May 14, 2019 08:15 | 7h 45m | 22 | 166 |
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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 3.62 | 2.0 hrs | 2.88 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county