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2020 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 8,095 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2726th 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 Meeker 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 6, 2020 22:45 | June 7, 2020 01:00 | 2h 15m | 783 | 785 |
| 2 | September 24, 2020 10:00 | September 24, 2020 13:45 | 3h 45m | 602 | 1,634 |
| 3 | December 16, 2020 13:00 | December 16, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 326 | 489 |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 04:00 | March 29, 2020 06:45 | 2h 45m | 324 | 815 |
| 5 | July 11, 2020 18:30 | July 11, 2020 21:15 | 2h 45m | 323 | 869 |
| 6 | October 18, 2020 05:15 | October 18, 2020 12:15 | 7h | 255 | 1,741 |
| 7 | March 20, 2020 23:30 | March 21, 2020 02:30 | 3h | 174 | 399 |
| 8 | May 12, 2020 22:15 | May 13, 2020 02:45 | 4h 30m | 115 | 514 |
| 9 | January 3, 2020 12:00 | January 3, 2020 18:45 | 6h 45m | 54 | 113 |
| 10 | August 3, 2020 14:30 | August 3, 2020 19:15 | 4h 45m | 42 | 56 |
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 Meeker 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 Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county