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2020 Kandiyohi County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kandiyohi County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2820th 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 Kandiyohi 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 | June 12, 2020 20:15 | June 12, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 801 | 1,202 |
| 2 | September 10, 2020 17:00 | September 10, 2020 19:00 | 2h | 474 | 948 |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 18:30 | July 11, 2020 21:15 | 2h 45m | 399 | 1,002 |
| 4 | December 16, 2020 13:00 | December 16, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 399 | 599 |
| 5 | August 28, 2020 09:00 | August 28, 2020 13:45 | 4h 45m | 262 | 837 |
| 6 | July 18, 2020 06:15 | July 19, 2020 05:45 | 23h 30m | 179 | 2,597 |
| 7 | August 25, 2020 17:15 | August 25, 2020 18:30 | 1h 15m | 178 | 223 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 14:00 | October 29, 2020 16:00 | 2h | 103 | 129 |
| 9 | June 14, 2020 16:30 | June 14, 2020 21:30 | 5h | 62 | 267 |
| 10 | September 11, 2020 01:30 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 1h 30m | 53 | 80 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Kandiyohi 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities | 2020 | 22 min | 0.31 | 22 min | 0.31 |
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 ÷ 20,235 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. Kandiyohi County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kandiyohi 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/kandiyohi-county