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2021 Clearwater County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Clearwater County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 15 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2961st 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 Clearwater County, 2021
The 2 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 2, 2021 02:15 | May 2, 2021 05:30 | 3h 15m | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | May 18, 2021 16:15 | May 18, 2021 17:45 | 1h 30m | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 0 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 Clearwater 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 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.95 | 2.5 hrs | 1.60 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bagley 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 ÷ 5,121 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. Clearwater County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clearwater 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/clearwater-county