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2021 Morrison County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Morrison County, MN went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1783rd 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 Morrison 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 | September 14, 2021 04:15 | September 14, 2021 12:45 | 8h 30m | 5,073 | 14K |
| 2 | August 28, 2021 16:45 | August 30, 2021 06:45 | 1d 14h | 3,229 | 11K |
| 3 | October 15, 2021 13:45 | October 15, 2021 14:45 | 1h | 1,955 | 489 |
| 4 | October 18, 2021 18:15 | October 18, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 1,954 | 489 |
| 5 | June 3, 2021 22:45 | June 4, 2021 00:45 | 2h | 1,583 | 2,106 |
| 6 | February 22, 2021 13:30 | February 22, 2021 16:45 | 3h 15m | 1,509 | 1,169 |
| 7 | September 20, 2021 09:45 | September 20, 2021 21:15 | 11h 30m | 1,367 | 2,263 |
| 8 | September 21, 2021 13:00 | September 21, 2021 19:30 | 6h 30m | 1,128 | 916 |
| 9 | March 27, 2021 12:15 | March 27, 2021 15:30 | 3h 15m | 1,015 | 1,744 |
| 10 | June 8, 2021 19:30 | June 9, 2021 00:15 | 4h 45m | 913 | 2,034 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 40 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Morrison 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| East Central Energy | 2021 | 65 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.60 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 0.86 | 84 min | 0.84 |
| City of Pierz - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Randall - (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 ÷ 19,525 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. Morrison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morrison 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/morrison-county