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2021 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,518 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2917th 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 Douglas 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 | July 24, 2021 07:15 | July 24, 2021 10:30 | 3h 15m | 158 | 514 |
| 2 | April 19, 2021 15:30 | April 19, 2021 18:30 | 3h | 142 | 426 |
| 3 | March 19, 2021 17:00 | March 19, 2021 18:30 | 1h 30m | 107 | 161 |
| 4 | August 5, 2021 12:30 | August 5, 2021 13:15 | 45m | 97 | 73 |
| 5 | October 10, 2021 02:00 | October 10, 2021 06:00 | 4h | 97 | 374 |
| 6 | August 6, 2021 13:15 | August 6, 2021 15:30 | 2h 15m | 42 | 75 |
| 7 | May 28, 2021 07:00 | May 29, 2021 17:30 | 1d 10h | 24 | 822 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 21:45 | September 29, 2021 23:45 | 2h | 15 | 27 |
| 9 | September 22, 2021 15:00 | September 22, 2021 15:15 | 15m | 9 | 2 |
| 10 | January 10, 2021 04:00 | January 10, 2021 06:30 | 2h 30m | 6 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| City of Alexandria - (MN) | 2021 | 4 min | 0.08 | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county