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2019 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 8,742 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2293rd 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 Pope 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 | January 30, 2019 10:30 | January 30, 2019 16:45 | 6h 15m | 819 | 2,853 |
| 2 | October 8, 2019 16:45 | October 9, 2019 04:00 | 11h 15m | 177 | 1,914 |
| 3 | May 18, 2019 23:30 | May 19, 2019 03:30 | 4h | 174 | 667 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 16:15 | April 11, 2019 23:00 | 6h 45m | 118 | 634 |
| 5 | September 3, 2019 02:00 | September 3, 2019 17:45 | 15h 45m | 92 | 589 |
| 6 | April 30, 2019 13:30 | April 30, 2019 18:15 | 4h 45m | 85 | 190 |
| 7 | September 18, 2019 08:30 | September 18, 2019 18:45 | 10h 15m | 79 | 174 |
| 8 | December 12, 2019 03:00 | December 12, 2019 05:15 | 2h 15m | 58 | 131 |
| 9 | March 15, 2019 17:15 | March 15, 2019 23:00 | 5h 45m | 43 | 151 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 18:00 | November 27, 2019 20:00 | 2h | 36 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 | 1.6 hrs | 1.38 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 | 1.9 hrs | 1.11 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county