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2020 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2627th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 8, 2020 09:45 | July 8, 2020 18:00 | 8h 15m | 1,143 | 4,535 |
| 2 | November 16, 2020 17:30 | November 16, 2020 18:00 | 30m | 956 | 254 |
| 3 | November 3, 2020 16:15 | November 3, 2020 19:45 | 3h 30m | 954 | 245 |
| 4 | May 26, 2020 08:00 | May 26, 2020 08:45 | 45m | 850 | 235 |
| 5 | September 23, 2020 23:15 | September 24, 2020 17:00 | 17h 45m | 621 | 1,102 |
| 6 | July 18, 2020 01:15 | July 18, 2020 05:45 | 4h 30m | 572 | 1,312 |
| 7 | July 25, 2020 12:15 | July 25, 2020 16:15 | 4h | 517 | 540 |
| 8 | February 22, 2020 17:45 | February 22, 2020 18:00 | 15m | 508 | 127 |
| 9 | April 17, 2020 03:00 | April 17, 2020 03:15 | 15m | 508 | 127 |
| 10 | August 14, 2020 04:45 | August 14, 2020 06:15 | 1h 30m | 508 | 550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2020 | 6.5 hrs | 2.71 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.23 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2018 | 8 min | 0.52 | 8 min | 0.52 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/minnesota/becker-county