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2021 Swift County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Swift County, MN went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1499th 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 Swift County, 2021
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 15, 2021 12:15 | January 15, 2021 16:15 | 4h | 1,985 | 7,535 |
| 2 | March 20, 2021 18:45 | March 20, 2021 20:00 | 1h 15m | 452 | 452 |
| 3 | December 1, 2021 14:30 | December 1, 2021 14:45 | 15m | 330 | 83 |
| 4 | February 26, 2021 05:00 | February 26, 2021 05:15 | 15m | 128 | 32 |
| 5 | January 1, 2021 00:15 | January 5, 2021 16:00 | 4d 15h | 127 | 14K |
| 6 | February 26, 2021 08:30 | February 26, 2021 09:45 | 1h 15m | 127 | 159 |
| 7 | January 15, 2021 02:30 | January 15, 2021 05:30 | 3h | 108 | 209 |
| 8 | March 11, 2021 15:00 | March 11, 2021 18:00 | 3h | 15 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 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 Swift 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 41 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.53 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Benson - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,384 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. Swift County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Swift 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/swift-county