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2020 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 3,982 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2823rd 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 Redwood 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 | October 20, 2020 01:15 | October 20, 2020 01:45 | 30m | 310 | 155 |
| 2 | August 8, 2020 19:15 | August 9, 2020 15:15 | 20h | 281 | 1,624 |
| 3 | August 12, 2020 13:00 | August 12, 2020 14:45 | 1h 45m | 272 | 476 |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 05:45 | March 29, 2020 17:30 | 11h 45m | 168 | 949 |
| 5 | March 19, 2020 20:00 | March 19, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 150 | 159 |
| 6 | December 23, 2020 22:30 | December 24, 2020 04:45 | 6h 15m | 102 | 259 |
| 7 | December 15, 2020 21:30 | December 15, 2020 22:00 | 30m | 95 | 48 |
| 8 | July 1, 2020 09:30 | July 1, 2020 11:30 | 2h | 33 | 35 |
| 9 | July 6, 2020 11:15 | July 6, 2020 14:30 | 3h 15m | 14 | 34 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | July 6, 2020 22:45 | 1h 30m | 14 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Redwood 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.32 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| Redwood Falls Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county