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2020 Stevens County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Stevens County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 9,106 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2510th 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 Stevens 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 18, 2020 06:45 | August 18, 2020 07:00 | 15m | 1,189 | 297 |
| 2 | September 12, 2020 03:45 | September 12, 2020 04:00 | 15m | 1,189 | 297 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 20:15 | December 23, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 1,189 | 297 |
| 4 | August 24, 2020 08:00 | August 24, 2020 12:30 | 4h 30m | 491 | 734 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 21:30 | November 1, 2020 22:00 | 30m | 491 | 246 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 08:00 | July 1, 2020 11:00 | 3h | 431 | 675 |
| 7 | March 5, 2020 14:45 | March 5, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 227 | 170 |
| 8 | April 5, 2020 00:30 | April 5, 2020 01:15 | 45m | 227 | 170 |
| 9 | June 18, 2020 00:45 | June 18, 2020 02:00 | 1h 15m | 227 | 284 |
| 10 | July 8, 2020 08:15 | July 8, 2020 09:15 | 1h | 227 | 227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 Stevens 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 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric 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 ÷ 6,634 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. Stevens County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stevens 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/stevens-county