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2021 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,951 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2898th 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 McLeod 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 | August 26, 2021 18:30 | August 27, 2021 20:00 | 1d 1h | 117 | 610 |
| 2 | May 19, 2021 12:45 | May 19, 2021 20:45 | 8h | 80 | 221 |
| 3 | August 7, 2021 10:30 | August 7, 2021 17:00 | 6h 30m | 79 | 267 |
| 4 | August 20, 2021 23:30 | August 21, 2021 02:15 | 2h 45m | 68 | 187 |
| 5 | July 21, 2021 08:45 | July 21, 2021 10:30 | 1h 45m | 58 | 87 |
| 6 | August 25, 2021 00:00 | August 25, 2021 01:00 | 1h | 45 | 23 |
| 7 | March 22, 2021 10:00 | March 22, 2021 22:30 | 12h 30m | 37 | 328 |
| 8 | July 19, 2021 19:45 | July 19, 2021 20:30 | 45m | 33 | 17 |
| 9 | February 4, 2021 20:00 | February 5, 2021 03:45 | 7h 45m | 29 | 142 |
| 10 | October 28, 2021 17:15 | October 28, 2021 19:00 | 1h 45m | 21 | 37 |
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 McLeod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2021 | 35 min | 0.48 | 31 min | 0.48 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson 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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county