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2021 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 3,141 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2527th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 | May 24, 2021 20:30 | May 24, 2021 23:00 | 2h 30m | 510 | 415 |
| 2 | July 1, 2021 07:15 | July 1, 2021 11:00 | 3h 45m | 466 | 1,169 |
| 3 | December 8, 2021 21:45 | December 8, 2021 22:00 | 15m | 276 | 69 |
| 4 | September 2, 2021 00:00 | September 2, 2021 02:00 | 2h | 102 | 200 |
| 5 | March 30, 2021 02:30 | March 30, 2021 09:15 | 6h 45m | 57 | 105 |
| 6 | October 7, 2021 12:30 | October 7, 2021 15:45 | 3h 15m | 57 | 185 |
| 7 | December 1, 2021 14:15 | December 1, 2021 22:30 | 8h 15m | 57 | 470 |
| 8 | November 19, 2021 15:15 | November 19, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 26 | 33 |
| 9 | June 20, 2021 18:15 | June 20, 2021 21:15 | 3h | 21 | 63 |
| 10 | May 25, 2021 01:15 | May 25, 2021 02:30 | 1h 15m | 18 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 41 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county