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2021 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,458 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2902nd 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 Meeker 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 | March 10, 2021 12:45 | March 10, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 325 | 488 |
| 2 | July 24, 2021 03:00 | July 24, 2021 04:45 | 1h 45m | 324 | 567 |
| 3 | October 19, 2021 18:15 | October 19, 2021 23:15 | 5h | 22 | 109 |
| 4 | November 17, 2021 18:00 | November 17, 2021 19:45 | 1h 45m | 17 | 26 |
| 5 | August 17, 2021 15:15 | August 17, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 14 | 14 |
| 6 | November 3, 2021 16:30 | November 3, 2021 21:15 | 4h 45m | 9 | 43 |
| 7 | April 6, 2021 23:30 | April 7, 2021 03:45 | 4h 15m | 8 | 31 |
| 8 | September 16, 2021 17:30 | September 16, 2021 21:15 | 3h 45m | 7 | 25 |
| 9 | July 28, 2021 12:45 | July 28, 2021 16:30 | 3h 45m | 5 | 12 |
| 10 | June 17, 2021 13:00 | June 17, 2021 15:45 | 2h 45m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Meeker 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 Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county