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2020 Polk County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2697th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk 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 | April 2, 2020 19:00 | April 2, 2020 23:45 | 4h 45m | 4,470 | 4,662 |
| 2 | June 8, 2020 03:30 | June 8, 2020 06:45 | 3h 15m | 1,723 | 3,729 |
| 3 | October 31, 2020 18:15 | October 31, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 888 | 444 |
| 4 | June 18, 2020 03:30 | June 18, 2020 06:15 | 2h 45m | 835 | 1,873 |
| 5 | June 19, 2020 05:00 | June 19, 2020 05:15 | 15m | 832 | 208 |
| 6 | August 13, 2020 23:00 | August 13, 2020 23:15 | 15m | 832 | 208 |
| 7 | July 17, 2020 23:00 | July 18, 2020 02:15 | 3h 15m | 435 | 1,305 |
| 8 | August 30, 2020 23:15 | August 31, 2020 01:00 | 1h 45m | 435 | 761 |
| 9 | July 1, 2020 01:45 | July 1, 2020 02:00 | 15m | 390 | 98 |
| 10 | July 17, 2020 22:00 | July 17, 2020 22:15 | 15m | 390 | 98 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 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 Polk 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Grand Forks - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fosston - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nielsville - (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 ÷ 19,237 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. Polk County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county