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2020 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2148th 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 Pipestone 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 19:00 | August 28, 2020 21:15 | 2h 15m | 350 | 557 |
| 2 | October 15, 2020 09:15 | October 15, 2020 15:45 | 6h 30m | 223 | 1,058 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 04:00 | July 21, 2020 10:00 | 6h | 222 | 1,332 |
| 4 | May 1, 2020 18:45 | May 1, 2020 19:30 | 45m | 134 | 93 |
| 5 | December 8, 2020 17:15 | December 8, 2020 20:45 | 3h 30m | 99 | 126 |
| 6 | September 7, 2020 09:30 | September 7, 2020 10:30 | 1h | 56 | 40 |
| 7 | May 20, 2020 14:15 | May 20, 2020 17:15 | 3h | 50 | 32 |
| 8 | January 20, 2020 20:30 | January 20, 2020 21:00 | 30m | 49 | 13 |
| 9 | January 27, 2020 19:00 | January 27, 2020 19:45 | 45m | 49 | 25 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 19:30 | June 16, 2020 19:45 | 8d | 48 | 453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Pipestone 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county