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2020 Traverse County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Traverse County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 4,738 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2252nd 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 Traverse County, 2020
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 26, 2020 06:45 | July 26, 2020 09:15 | 2h 30m | 1,836 | 4,590 |
| 2 | February 13, 2020 09:15 | February 13, 2020 09:30 | 15m | 24 | 6 |
| 3 | June 21, 2020 02:00 | June 21, 2020 02:45 | 45m | 24 | 18 |
| 4 | July 18, 2020 03:45 | July 18, 2020 06:00 | 2h 15m | 24 | 54 |
| 5 | August 24, 2020 07:00 | August 24, 2020 08:15 | 1h 15m | 20 | 25 |
| 6 | December 23, 2020 10:45 | December 23, 2020 13:00 | 2h 15m | 20 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Traverse 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 |
| 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 ÷ 2,357 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. Traverse County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traverse 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/traverse-county