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2020 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 8,488 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1969th 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 Wilkin 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 3, 2020 18:45 | August 3, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 464 | 116 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 12:30 | July 9, 2020 19:00 | 1d 6h | 376 | 1,943 |
| 3 | August 29, 2020 01:00 | August 29, 2020 05:00 | 4h | 258 | 512 |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 07:30 | June 9, 2020 20:30 | 13h | 205 | 806 |
| 5 | November 18, 2020 23:30 | November 19, 2020 13:00 | 13h 30m | 189 | 2,506 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 08:45 | July 1, 2020 11:30 | 2h 45m | 124 | 165 |
| 7 | March 5, 2020 14:45 | March 5, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 117 | 88 |
| 8 | April 5, 2020 00:30 | April 5, 2020 01:15 | 45m | 117 | 88 |
| 9 | January 5, 2020 00:45 | January 5, 2020 09:00 | 8h 15m | 90 | 619 |
| 10 | February 4, 2020 18:45 | February 4, 2020 21:15 | 2h 30m | 90 | 158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2020 | 6.5 hrs | 2.71 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county