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2019 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 766th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 | October 22, 2019 00:15 | October 22, 2019 10:45 | 10h 30m | 972 | 4,417 |
| 2 | May 23, 2019 17:15 | May 23, 2019 21:00 | 3h 45m | 630 | 729 |
| 3 | July 14, 2019 23:00 | July 15, 2019 01:45 | 2h 45m | 577 | 1,543 |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 23:15 | July 20, 2019 21:00 | 21h 45m | 517 | 2,034 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 10:45 | November 4, 2019 13:00 | 2h 15m | 500 | 999 |
| 6 | July 1, 2019 01:30 | July 2, 2019 01:00 | 23h 30m | 475 | 2,285 |
| 7 | April 11, 2019 09:45 | April 11, 2019 23:45 | 14h | 284 | 2,548 |
| 8 | June 15, 2019 19:30 | June 16, 2019 00:15 | 4h 45m | 224 | 718 |
| 9 | October 4, 2019 16:00 | October 4, 2019 17:00 | 1h | 222 | 222 |
| 10 | June 27, 2019 12:30 | June 27, 2019 15:45 | 3h 15m | 202 | 513 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county