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2020 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 968 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2855th 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 Lincoln 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 8, 2020 19:00 | August 8, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 1,905 | 655 |
| 2 | December 23, 2020 16:00 | December 23, 2020 16:15 | 15m | 45 | 11 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 04:00 | July 21, 2020 10:00 | 6h | 25 | 150 |
| 4 | October 15, 2020 09:15 | October 15, 2020 17:15 | 8h | 25 | 122 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 02:30 | July 21, 2020 03:00 | 30m | 6 | 3 |
| 6 | April 22, 2020 14:00 | April 22, 2020 15:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | January 4, 2020 20:00 | January 4, 2020 20:45 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | June 1, 2020 17:30 | June 1, 2020 21:15 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | June 19, 2020 01:30 | June 19, 2020 04:45 | 3h 15m | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | July 24, 2020 17:45 | July 24, 2020 19:00 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2020 | 1.5 hrs | 2.73 | 83 min | 2.32 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county