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2020 Lyon County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lyon County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2656th 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 Lyon 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 | April 3, 2020 04:45 | April 3, 2020 10:30 | 5h 45m | 647 | 3,584 |
| 2 | November 13, 2020 19:15 | November 13, 2020 23:00 | 3h 45m | 647 | 862 |
| 3 | June 9, 2020 16:00 | June 9, 2020 20:00 | 4h | 588 | 444 |
| 4 | August 8, 2020 18:45 | August 9, 2020 14:00 | 19h 15m | 350 | 2,974 |
| 5 | June 5, 2020 00:15 | June 5, 2020 03:30 | 3h 15m | 233 | 676 |
| 6 | August 14, 2020 16:45 | August 14, 2020 17:00 | 15m | 151 | 38 |
| 7 | November 5, 2020 15:30 | November 5, 2020 17:30 | 2h | 136 | 204 |
| 8 | July 1, 2020 18:00 | July 1, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 106 | 27 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 04:30 | May 21, 2020 10:30 | 6h | 93 | 558 |
| 10 | February 12, 2020 18:45 | February 12, 2020 22:00 | 3h 15m | 90 | 94 |
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 Lyon 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Marshall - (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 ÷ 12,443 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. Lyon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lyon 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/lyon-county