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2021 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 6,089 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2655th 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 Pope 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 20, 2021 21:45 | August 21, 2021 02:45 | 5h | 731 | 1,305 |
| 2 | August 24, 2021 09:30 | August 24, 2021 19:45 | 10h 15m | 547 | 2,910 |
| 3 | June 19, 2021 08:00 | June 19, 2021 11:00 | 3h | 236 | 591 |
| 4 | April 7, 2021 11:15 | April 7, 2021 11:30 | 15m | 158 | 40 |
| 5 | July 4, 2021 22:30 | July 5, 2021 01:30 | 3h | 138 | 414 |
| 6 | May 17, 2021 14:00 | May 17, 2021 15:00 | 1h | 92 | 50 |
| 7 | September 21, 2021 17:30 | September 22, 2021 00:15 | 6h 45m | 48 | 244 |
| 8 | March 24, 2021 15:15 | March 24, 2021 16:30 | 1h 15m | 39 | 49 |
| 9 | August 28, 2021 16:15 | August 28, 2021 23:00 | 6h 45m | 24 | 72 |
| 10 | October 13, 2021 19:00 | October 13, 2021 22:45 | 3h 45m | 18 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2021 | 86 min | 1.13 | 74 min | 1.09 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.53 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county