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2020 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2018th 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 Murray 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 | October 19, 2020 18:45 | October 19, 2020 19:30 | 45m | 1,657 | 1,243 |
| 2 | April 3, 2020 05:15 | April 3, 2020 10:45 | 5h 30m | 1,655 | 8,048 |
| 3 | June 14, 2020 19:15 | June 14, 2020 19:45 | 30m | 795 | 199 |
| 4 | March 7, 2020 14:15 | March 7, 2020 16:45 | 2h 30m | 436 | 1,090 |
| 5 | April 16, 2020 15:00 | April 16, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 436 | 327 |
| 6 | October 23, 2020 10:30 | October 23, 2020 14:45 | 4h 15m | 405 | 644 |
| 7 | August 9, 2020 08:15 | August 9, 2020 22:30 | 14h 15m | 148 | 576 |
| 8 | August 14, 2020 18:30 | August 14, 2020 20:30 | 2h | 123 | 216 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 09:30 | July 27, 2020 00:30 | 15h | 75 | 180 |
| 10 | June 11, 2020 18:30 | June 11, 2020 19:15 | 45m | 67 | 50 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2020 | 1.5 hrs | 2.73 | 83 min | 2.32 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.32 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.32 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county