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2021 Stevens County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Stevens County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 5,586 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2718th 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 Stevens 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 9, 2021 02:45 | April 9, 2021 03:00 | 15m | 1,189 | 297 |
| 2 | January 15, 2021 18:45 | January 15, 2021 21:00 | 2h 15m | 398 | 896 |
| 3 | January 15, 2021 02:30 | January 15, 2021 04:00 | 1h 30m | 191 | 287 |
| 4 | March 23, 2021 18:30 | March 23, 2021 18:45 | 15m | 155 | 39 |
| 5 | July 28, 2021 11:30 | July 28, 2021 14:15 | 2h 45m | 131 | 360 |
| 6 | September 1, 2021 07:00 | September 1, 2021 13:30 | 6h 30m | 131 | 852 |
| 7 | September 1, 2021 15:45 | September 1, 2021 20:00 | 4h 15m | 131 | 524 |
| 8 | September 1, 2021 21:15 | September 1, 2021 21:30 | 15m | 131 | 33 |
| 9 | September 1, 2021 22:30 | September 2, 2021 16:00 | 17h 30m | 131 | 2,293 |
| 10 | March 20, 2021 20:00 | March 20, 2021 20:45 | 45m | 9 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Stevens 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 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,634 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. Stevens County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stevens 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/stevens-county