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2020 Otter Tail County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Otter Tail County, MN went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 205K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1459th 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 Otter Tail 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 9, 2020 05:45 | June 10, 2020 04:00 | 22h 15m | 9,909 | 44K |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 08:45 | July 10, 2020 04:15 | 1d 19h | 3,871 | 45K |
| 3 | July 1, 2020 09:00 | July 2, 2020 04:30 | 19h 30m | 3,467 | 6,674 |
| 4 | November 18, 2020 23:15 | November 19, 2020 04:30 | 5h 15m | 2,025 | 2,622 |
| 5 | April 2, 2020 04:30 | April 2, 2020 14:45 | 10h 15m | 1,939 | 4,964 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 12:15 | January 11, 2020 16:45 | 4h 30m | 1,833 | 6,214 |
| 7 | September 10, 2020 23:00 | September 11, 2020 10:00 | 11h | 1,723 | 16K |
| 8 | June 15, 2020 17:15 | June 15, 2020 23:45 | 6h 30m | 1,632 | 4,297 |
| 9 | January 21, 2020 19:30 | January 21, 2020 20:45 | 1h 15m | 1,331 | 1,664 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 18:00 | July 6, 2020 21:00 | 3h | 1,190 | 600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 79 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Otter Tail 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2020 | 6.5 hrs | 2.71 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 60 min | 0.70 |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | 2018 | 2 min | 0.07 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Henning - (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 ÷ 43,936 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. Otter Tail County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otter Tail 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/otter-tail-county