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2021 Lac qui Parle County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lac qui Parle County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 1,158 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2782nd 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 Lac qui Parle 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 | August 5, 2021 16:30 | August 5, 2021 19:45 | 3h 15m | 354 | 1,151 |
| 2 | July 8, 2021 18:30 | July 9, 2021 01:30 | 7h | 1 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 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 Lac qui Parle 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 41 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Madison - (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 ÷ 1,882 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. Lac qui Parle County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lac qui Parle 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/lac-qui-parle-county