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2019 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 51.2 hours, a total of 239K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 58th 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 Pipestone 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 | August 22, 2019 16:00 | August 22, 2019 19:30 | 3h 30m | 3,288 | 6,929 |
| 2 | July 20, 2019 11:30 | July 22, 2019 18:15 | 2d 6h | 2,970 | 19K |
| 3 | April 10, 2019 21:45 | May 3, 2019 12:30 | 22d 14h | 2,888 | 179K |
| 4 | August 18, 2019 04:00 | August 19, 2019 02:45 | 22h 45m | 2,335 | 15K |
| 5 | May 3, 2019 20:00 | May 3, 2019 23:15 | 3h 15m | 965 | 2,132 |
| 6 | July 3, 2019 16:00 | July 4, 2019 01:15 | 9h 15m | 720 | 392 |
| 7 | November 4, 2019 16:00 | November 5, 2019 18:45 | 1d 2h | 718 | 1,306 |
| 8 | January 30, 2019 01:30 | January 30, 2019 07:00 | 5h 30m | 684 | 3,762 |
| 9 | June 5, 2019 21:15 | June 10, 2019 18:00 | 4d 20h | 338 | 1,320 |
| 10 | February 2, 2019 10:45 | February 2, 2019 15:30 | 4h 45m | 320 | 971 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pipestone 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county