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2020 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2760th 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 McLeod 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 28, 2020 09:45 | August 28, 2020 18:45 | 9h | 1,647 | 3,782 |
| 2 | June 6, 2020 22:45 | June 7, 2020 01:00 | 2h 15m | 1,159 | 2,320 |
| 3 | September 23, 2020 18:15 | September 24, 2020 00:30 | 6h 15m | 344 | 1,968 |
| 4 | May 7, 2020 16:00 | May 7, 2020 18:30 | 2h 30m | 210 | 434 |
| 5 | November 8, 2020 13:00 | November 8, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 158 | 244 |
| 6 | November 9, 2020 13:00 | November 9, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 82 | 228 |
| 7 | September 24, 2020 10:30 | September 24, 2020 18:15 | 7h 45m | 76 | 589 |
| 8 | February 22, 2020 20:00 | February 22, 2020 23:00 | 3h | 44 | 132 |
| 9 | January 3, 2020 02:15 | January 3, 2020 04:00 | 1h 45m | 41 | 72 |
| 10 | May 27, 2020 12:45 | May 27, 2020 17:15 | 4h 30m | 40 | 167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 McLeod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2020 | 29 min | 0.37 | 29 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county