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2020 Swift County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Swift County, MN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1782nd 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 Swift 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 | June 9, 2020 01:15 | June 9, 2020 01:30 | 15m | 1,810 | 453 |
| 2 | April 21, 2020 18:30 | April 21, 2020 19:00 | 30m | 437 | 219 |
| 3 | August 24, 2020 07:45 | August 24, 2020 16:15 | 8h 30m | 368 | 2,113 |
| 4 | June 23, 2020 21:45 | June 23, 2020 22:15 | 30m | 280 | 140 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 04:30 | November 1, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 280 | 288 |
| 6 | July 31, 2020 22:15 | July 31, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 176 | 176 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 07:00 | July 18, 2020 07:15 | 15m | 127 | 32 |
| 8 | December 26, 2020 07:00 | December 31, 2020 00:00 | 4d 17h | 127 | 14K |
| 9 | November 1, 2020 21:30 | November 1, 2020 22:00 | 30m | 116 | 58 |
| 10 | September 25, 2020 14:15 | September 25, 2020 17:00 | 2h 45m | 98 | 270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Swift 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Benson - (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 ÷ 5,384 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. Swift County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Swift 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/swift-county