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2019 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2216th 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 Redwood 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 04:30 | April 14, 2019 22:45 | 3d 18h | 1,014 | 6,012 |
| 2 | January 31, 2019 06:15 | January 31, 2019 10:15 | 4h | 279 | 1,047 |
| 3 | February 1, 2019 13:15 | February 1, 2019 16:30 | 3h 15m | 279 | 898 |
| 4 | May 22, 2019 22:00 | May 23, 2019 05:00 | 7h | 279 | 1,822 |
| 5 | September 12, 2019 01:30 | September 12, 2019 04:15 | 2h 45m | 277 | 681 |
| 6 | July 12, 2019 16:45 | July 12, 2019 20:00 | 3h 15m | 239 | 615 |
| 7 | February 8, 2019 02:00 | February 8, 2019 08:15 | 6h 15m | 208 | 951 |
| 8 | May 22, 2019 01:00 | May 22, 2019 03:45 | 2h 45m | 99 | 125 |
| 9 | June 27, 2019 13:45 | June 27, 2019 18:45 | 5h | 77 | 310 |
| 10 | April 24, 2019 22:15 | April 24, 2019 23:45 | 1h 30m | 38 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Redwood 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| Redwood Falls Public Util 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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county