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2020 Morrison County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Morrison County, MN went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1666th 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 Morrison 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 | July 18, 2020 02:45 | July 18, 2020 20:30 | 17h 45m | 2,862 | 5,854 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 04:15 | March 31, 2020 21:00 | 2d 16h | 2,014 | 26K |
| 3 | May 14, 2020 07:15 | May 14, 2020 17:30 | 10h 15m | 1,959 | 6,181 |
| 4 | July 8, 2020 10:30 | July 8, 2020 14:45 | 4h 15m | 1,801 | 2,039 |
| 5 | June 29, 2020 20:30 | June 30, 2020 20:30 | 1d | 1,749 | 11K |
| 6 | August 14, 2020 22:15 | August 15, 2020 10:30 | 12h 15m | 1,450 | 3,007 |
| 7 | December 11, 2020 21:30 | December 12, 2020 00:00 | 2h 30m | 1,115 | 1,451 |
| 8 | July 16, 2020 01:45 | July 16, 2020 02:15 | 30m | 1,015 | 505 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 16:15 | May 18, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 687 | 798 |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 03:30 | November 2, 2020 14:45 | 1d 11h | 660 | 1,111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Morrison 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 0.72 | 56 min | 0.54 |
| City of Pierz - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Randall - (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 ÷ 19,525 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. Morrison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morrison 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/morrison-county