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2020 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2122nd 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 Chippewa 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 | October 24, 2020 22:45 | October 25, 2020 00:00 | 1h 15m | 1,050 | 615 |
| 2 | October 25, 2020 01:00 | October 25, 2020 02:15 | 1h 15m | 1,050 | 1,050 |
| 3 | October 25, 2020 03:30 | October 25, 2020 07:30 | 4h | 1,049 | 3,409 |
| 4 | October 25, 2020 08:15 | October 25, 2020 09:00 | 45m | 1,049 | 787 |
| 5 | October 23, 2020 13:00 | October 23, 2020 14:45 | 1h 45m | 926 | 790 |
| 6 | June 30, 2020 01:00 | June 30, 2020 11:00 | 10h | 371 | 1,274 |
| 7 | June 18, 2020 17:15 | June 18, 2020 19:15 | 2h | 276 | 483 |
| 8 | July 18, 2020 06:30 | July 19, 2020 04:30 | 22h | 266 | 1,676 |
| 9 | March 21, 2020 15:30 | March 21, 2020 17:00 | 1h 30m | 188 | 274 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 12:15 | June 29, 2020 17:00 | 4h 45m | 146 | 405 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| 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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county