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2021 Todd County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Todd County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2061st 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 Todd 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 | July 24, 2021 07:00 | July 25, 2021 03:00 | 20h | 1,563 | 7,673 |
| 2 | July 7, 2021 00:30 | July 7, 2021 12:15 | 11h 45m | 1,154 | 1,320 |
| 3 | December 16, 2021 02:15 | December 16, 2021 18:30 | 16h 15m | 1,152 | 3,566 |
| 4 | July 28, 2021 01:45 | July 28, 2021 03:30 | 1h 45m | 1,009 | 863 |
| 5 | August 28, 2021 16:45 | August 30, 2021 02:30 | 1d 9h | 875 | 6,525 |
| 6 | June 19, 2021 01:00 | June 19, 2021 04:00 | 3h | 778 | 1,664 |
| 7 | August 5, 2021 15:45 | August 5, 2021 17:45 | 2h | 615 | 1,199 |
| 8 | August 20, 2021 16:45 | August 21, 2021 06:30 | 13h 45m | 605 | 1,226 |
| 9 | July 19, 2021 21:00 | July 20, 2021 01:30 | 4h 30m | 358 | 1,522 |
| 10 | July 30, 2021 00:15 | July 30, 2021 02:45 | 2h 30m | 346 | 94 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Todd 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.83 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 0.86 | 84 min | 0.84 |
| City of Staples- (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 ÷ 13,003 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. Todd County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Todd 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/todd-county