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2020 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 939th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 8, 2020 17:45 | August 10, 2020 02:30 | 1d 8h | 1,654 | 10K |
| 2 | April 3, 2020 05:00 | April 3, 2020 10:30 | 5h 30m | 702 | 3,861 |
| 3 | June 14, 2020 16:00 | June 14, 2020 19:00 | 3h | 494 | 1,357 |
| 4 | October 12, 2020 01:45 | October 12, 2020 09:45 | 8h | 462 | 1,110 |
| 5 | November 13, 2020 21:45 | November 14, 2020 02:30 | 4h 45m | 221 | 885 |
| 6 | June 22, 2020 14:30 | June 22, 2020 20:30 | 6h | 215 | 145 |
| 7 | August 14, 2020 22:00 | August 14, 2020 23:00 | 1h | 199 | 199 |
| 8 | August 31, 2020 10:15 | August 31, 2020 17:30 | 7h 15m | 108 | 328 |
| 9 | March 15, 2020 04:00 | March 15, 2020 06:45 | 2h 45m | 90 | 248 |
| 10 | June 6, 2020 16:45 | June 6, 2020 19:15 | 2h 30m | 30 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county