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2021 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2747th 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 Clay 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 | June 20, 2021 14:45 | June 20, 2021 20:30 | 5h 45m | 3,126 | 10K |
| 2 | August 4, 2021 10:45 | August 4, 2021 11:45 | 1h | 2,606 | 2,606 |
| 3 | February 5, 2021 15:00 | February 5, 2021 18:00 | 3h | 584 | 1,752 |
| 4 | November 1, 2021 15:15 | November 1, 2021 18:45 | 3h 30m | 583 | 1,750 |
| 5 | December 4, 2021 23:30 | December 5, 2021 01:15 | 1h 45m | 260 | 131 |
| 6 | June 8, 2021 04:00 | June 8, 2021 10:30 | 6h 30m | 134 | 502 |
| 7 | March 30, 2021 05:00 | March 30, 2021 08:15 | 3h 15m | 129 | 362 |
| 8 | July 27, 2021 13:45 | July 27, 2021 17:15 | 3h 30m | 126 | 190 |
| 9 | August 5, 2021 15:15 | August 5, 2021 16:00 | 45m | 118 | 59 |
| 10 | January 16, 2021 20:15 | January 16, 2021 22:00 | 1h 45m | 63 | 95 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Clay 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.83 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2021 | 3.4 hrs | 4.04 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county