County annual report · FIPS 27125
2020 Red Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Red Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 14.0 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 598th 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 Red Lake County, 2020
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 8, 2020 03:30 | June 8, 2020 07:30 | 4h | 1,897 | 1,316 |
| 2 | April 27, 2020 05:15 | April 27, 2020 05:45 | 30m | 1,604 | 802 |
| 3 | May 5, 2020 04:45 | May 5, 2020 05:45 | 1h | 1,604 | 1,604 |
| 4 | October 19, 2020 17:15 | October 19, 2020 18:00 | 45m | 401 | 240 |
| 5 | May 29, 2020 15:00 | May 29, 2020 16:45 | 1h 45m | 201 | 352 |
| 6 | August 14, 2020 02:00 | August 17, 2020 16:00 | 3d 14h | 159 | 13K |
| 7 | September 14, 2020 18:00 | September 17, 2020 15:15 | 2d 21h | 159 | 11K |
| 8 | October 14, 2020 17:45 | October 15, 2020 09:45 | 16h | 159 | 2,504 |
| 9 | October 15, 2020 10:30 | October 15, 2020 18:15 | 7h 45m | 159 | 1,193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Red Lake 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 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,280 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. Red Lake County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Red Lake 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/red-lake-county