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2020 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 7,365 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2569th 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 Pope 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 | May 26, 2020 17:15 | May 26, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 722 | 181 |
| 2 | August 14, 2020 21:00 | August 15, 2020 10:00 | 13h | 280 | 592 |
| 3 | June 9, 2020 07:30 | June 9, 2020 13:00 | 5h 30m | 275 | 1,513 |
| 4 | August 24, 2020 08:15 | August 24, 2020 17:30 | 9h 15m | 254 | 237 |
| 5 | August 12, 2020 12:15 | August 12, 2020 19:15 | 7h | 206 | 1,288 |
| 6 | October 2, 2020 14:30 | October 2, 2020 17:30 | 3h | 202 | 356 |
| 7 | March 4, 2020 10:00 | March 4, 2020 12:45 | 2h 45m | 177 | 443 |
| 8 | July 4, 2020 18:45 | July 5, 2020 03:30 | 8h 45m | 141 | 297 |
| 9 | July 9, 2020 07:45 | July 9, 2020 13:00 | 5h 15m | 123 | 165 |
| 10 | September 3, 2020 19:45 | September 3, 2020 22:15 | 2h 30m | 121 | 271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 60 min | 0.70 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county