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2021 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2036th 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 Pipestone 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 19, 2021 09:45 | September 19, 2021 14:15 | 4h 30m | 768 | 2,399 |
| 2 | October 19, 2021 20:30 | October 19, 2021 23:00 | 2h 30m | 711 | 535 |
| 3 | December 22, 2021 16:15 | December 22, 2021 18:30 | 2h 15m | 489 | 501 |
| 4 | November 19, 2021 16:00 | November 19, 2021 19:00 | 3h | 353 | 971 |
| 5 | October 16, 2021 20:45 | October 17, 2021 18:00 | 21h 15m | 255 | 1,192 |
| 6 | April 6, 2021 22:15 | April 15, 2021 13:00 | 8d 14h | 224 | 380 |
| 7 | May 14, 2021 10:00 | May 14, 2021 16:45 | 6h 45m | 223 | 1,505 |
| 8 | January 30, 2021 00:15 | January 30, 2021 05:00 | 4h 45m | 222 | 1,055 |
| 9 | October 13, 2021 12:00 | October 13, 2021 16:00 | 4h | 169 | 297 |
| 10 | September 17, 2021 06:00 | September 18, 2021 09:15 | 1d 3h | 127 | 731 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 11 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 Pipestone 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county