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2021 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2766th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 16, 2021 15:15 | April 16, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 898 | 1,347 |
| 2 | June 8, 2021 05:30 | June 8, 2021 09:45 | 4h 15m | 519 | 1,726 |
| 3 | July 24, 2021 07:15 | July 24, 2021 22:30 | 15h 15m | 448 | 1,667 |
| 4 | August 26, 2021 17:00 | August 27, 2021 01:00 | 8h | 387 | 495 |
| 5 | November 1, 2021 17:30 | November 1, 2021 17:45 | 15m | 294 | 74 |
| 6 | December 16, 2021 04:30 | December 16, 2021 17:30 | 13h | 260 | 2,351 |
| 7 | June 23, 2021 15:15 | June 23, 2021 20:00 | 4h 45m | 254 | 959 |
| 8 | August 20, 2021 22:30 | August 23, 2021 14:00 | 2d 15h | 248 | 1,167 |
| 9 | June 7, 2021 15:30 | June 7, 2021 19:30 | 4h | 247 | 66 |
| 10 | August 5, 2021 22:45 | August 6, 2021 00:15 | 1h 30m | 236 | 178 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 27 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 86 min | 1.13 | 74 min | 1.09 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.83 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.95 | 2.5 hrs | 1.60 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2018 | 8 min | 0.52 | 8 min | 0.52 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/minnesota/becker-county