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2021 Kandiyohi County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kandiyohi County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2775th 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 Kandiyohi 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 | December 16, 2021 05:45 | December 17, 2021 00:15 | 18h 30m | 823 | 3,940 |
| 2 | August 26, 2021 19:45 | August 26, 2021 23:00 | 3h 15m | 753 | 1,905 |
| 3 | July 8, 2021 16:45 | July 8, 2021 19:15 | 2h 30m | 480 | 721 |
| 4 | July 5, 2021 00:45 | July 5, 2021 03:00 | 2h 15m | 479 | 963 |
| 5 | July 6, 2021 10:00 | July 7, 2021 00:00 | 14h | 479 | 1,963 |
| 6 | July 24, 2021 03:00 | July 24, 2021 04:45 | 1h 45m | 407 | 709 |
| 7 | March 10, 2021 12:45 | March 10, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 404 | 606 |
| 8 | September 16, 2021 20:15 | September 17, 2021 05:15 | 9h | 319 | 1,154 |
| 9 | May 3, 2021 18:00 | May 3, 2021 21:00 | 3h | 195 | 152 |
| 10 | March 30, 2021 07:15 | March 30, 2021 13:30 | 6h 15m | 71 | 212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 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 Kandiyohi 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.53 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities | 2021 | 3 min | 0.12 | 3 min | 0.12 |
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 ÷ 20,235 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. Kandiyohi County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kandiyohi 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/kandiyohi-county