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2021 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,135 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2828th 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 Lincoln County, 2021
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 30, 2021 02:30 | March 30, 2021 03:00 | 30m | 1,519 | 760 |
| 2 | January 30, 2021 00:15 | January 30, 2021 05:00 | 4h 45m | 25 | 119 |
| 3 | April 12, 2021 16:00 | April 12, 2021 16:45 | 45m | 25 | 19 |
| 4 | May 14, 2021 10:00 | May 14, 2021 16:45 | 6h 45m | 25 | 169 |
| 5 | October 17, 2021 00:00 | October 17, 2021 02:30 | 2h 30m | 24 | 60 |
| 6 | May 25, 2021 02:30 | May 25, 2021 03:30 | 1h | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | October 25, 2021 14:45 | October 25, 2021 15:00 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | June 28, 2021 14:00 | June 28, 2021 16:00 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.08 | 1.5 hrs | 0.93 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 41 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county