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2022 Big Stone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Big Stone County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 2,855 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2452nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Big Stone County, 2022
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 9, 2022 11:15 | May 9, 2022 11:30 | 15m | 300 | 75 |
| 2 | August 7, 2022 06:00 | August 7, 2022 07:00 | 1h | 300 | 300 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 23:45 | May 13, 2022 06:30 | 6h 45m | 237 | 703 |
| 4 | September 22, 2022 14:15 | September 22, 2022 20:15 | 6h | 183 | 1,098 |
| 5 | December 28, 2022 08:15 | December 28, 2022 08:30 | 15m | 178 | 45 |
| 6 | June 21, 2022 04:00 | June 21, 2022 15:15 | 11h 15m | 56 | 613 |
| 7 | May 30, 2022 20:45 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | 45m | 28 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 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 Big Stone County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 6.2 hrs | 2.20 | 2.1 hrs | 1.80 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2022 | 29.8 hrs | 2.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.39 |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ortonville - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,766 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. Big Stone County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Big Stone County, MN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/minnesota/big-stone-county