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2021 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2130th 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 Redwood 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 | December 14, 2021 08:00 | December 14, 2021 12:15 | 4h 15m | 1,016 | 684 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 05:30 | December 16, 2021 16:45 | 11h 15m | 1,004 | 9,780 |
| 3 | September 17, 2021 07:00 | September 17, 2021 08:00 | 1h | 1,001 | 752 |
| 4 | August 7, 2021 10:00 | August 7, 2021 13:45 | 3h 45m | 339 | 749 |
| 5 | July 13, 2021 22:45 | July 14, 2021 09:30 | 10h 45m | 312 | 2,502 |
| 6 | January 5, 2021 15:45 | January 5, 2021 18:15 | 2h 30m | 308 | 685 |
| 7 | June 26, 2021 00:00 | June 26, 2021 04:15 | 4h 15m | 274 | 1,150 |
| 8 | June 2, 2021 05:45 | June 2, 2021 09:45 | 4h | 273 | 1,092 |
| 9 | February 7, 2021 00:30 | February 7, 2021 02:15 | 1h 45m | 272 | 216 |
| 10 | August 8, 2021 00:00 | August 8, 2021 00:30 | 30m | 210 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 10 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Redwood 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 41 min | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.48 | 68 min | 0.97 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| Redwood Falls Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county