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2020 Kittson County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kittson County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 5,178 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2277th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kittson 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 | August 9, 2020 18:00 | August 9, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 941 | 235 |
| 2 | August 20, 2020 06:00 | August 20, 2020 13:30 | 7h 30m | 672 | 2,155 |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 05:15 | April 8, 2020 05:45 | 30m | 362 | 181 |
| 4 | June 18, 2020 01:30 | June 18, 2020 07:45 | 6h 15m | 256 | 631 |
| 5 | November 21, 2020 14:15 | November 21, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 240 | 480 |
| 6 | November 21, 2020 19:15 | November 21, 2020 21:45 | 2h 30m | 240 | 600 |
| 7 | April 11, 2020 14:15 | April 11, 2020 15:15 | 1h | 235 | 235 |
| 8 | September 15, 2020 13:00 | September 15, 2020 15:00 | 2h | 152 | 304 |
| 9 | August 21, 2020 03:15 | August 21, 2020 04:00 | 45m | 83 | 62 |
| 10 | March 6, 2020 18:00 | March 6, 2020 20:00 | 2h | 62 | 124 |
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 Kittson 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 |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
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 ÷ 2,662 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. Kittson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kittson 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/kittson-county