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2019 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 6,112 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2060th 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 Wilkin 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 | November 20, 2019 20:00 | November 20, 2019 20:15 | 15m | 468 | 117 |
| 2 | August 22, 2019 21:00 | August 22, 2019 23:00 | 2h | 466 | 932 |
| 3 | August 5, 2019 19:15 | August 5, 2019 20:45 | 1h 30m | 401 | 602 |
| 4 | July 17, 2019 16:30 | July 17, 2019 16:45 | 15m | 190 | 48 |
| 5 | December 25, 2019 22:00 | December 26, 2019 05:30 | 7h 30m | 166 | 434 |
| 6 | June 29, 2019 18:30 | June 29, 2019 19:30 | 1h | 89 | 89 |
| 7 | October 9, 2019 13:45 | October 9, 2019 16:45 | 3h | 89 | 267 |
| 8 | November 1, 2019 04:45 | November 1, 2019 07:15 | 2h 30m | 87 | 94 |
| 9 | November 18, 2019 01:00 | November 18, 2019 03:15 | 2h 15m | 72 | 106 |
| 10 | August 13, 2019 14:45 | August 13, 2019 18:00 | 3h 15m | 71 | 231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county