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2021 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,323 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2583rd 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 Murray 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 | April 21, 2021 03:30 | April 21, 2021 04:00 | 30m | 436 | 218 |
| 2 | August 28, 2021 23:00 | August 29, 2021 23:00 | 1d | 307 | 3,433 |
| 3 | June 15, 2021 15:45 | June 15, 2021 16:45 | 1h | 158 | 158 |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 14:30 | June 11, 2021 18:00 | 3h 30m | 145 | 338 |
| 5 | December 16, 2021 04:00 | December 16, 2021 17:30 | 13h 30m | 93 | 523 |
| 6 | December 6, 2021 13:30 | December 6, 2021 17:30 | 4h | 70 | 280 |
| 7 | January 30, 2021 05:00 | January 30, 2021 06:30 | 1h 30m | 66 | 85 |
| 8 | September 17, 2021 06:30 | September 18, 2021 07:15 | 1d | 61 | 966 |
| 9 | July 13, 2021 19:15 | July 13, 2021 21:30 | 2h 15m | 34 | 61 |
| 10 | August 6, 2021 15:45 | August 6, 2021 21:00 | 5h 15m | 18 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.08 | 1.5 hrs | 0.93 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.48 | 68 min | 0.97 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county