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2022 Cass County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cass County, MN went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 648K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 209th 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 Cass County, 2022
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 28, 2022 20:15 | June 3, 2022 04:45 | 5d 8h | 8,131 | 198K |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 00:30 | June 24, 2022 19:30 | 3d 19h | 7,984 | 134K |
| 3 | December 15, 2022 09:45 | December 20, 2022 09:30 | 4d 23h | 5,681 | 182K |
| 4 | June 24, 2022 23:00 | June 27, 2022 20:45 | 2d 21h | 3,929 | 21K |
| 5 | April 6, 2022 09:30 | April 7, 2022 11:45 | 1d 2h | 3,304 | 19K |
| 6 | May 12, 2022 21:45 | May 16, 2022 12:00 | 3d 14h | 2,793 | 23K |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 15:45 | December 24, 2022 00:00 | 8h 15m | 2,339 | 669 |
| 8 | June 18, 2022 22:45 | June 20, 2022 11:45 | 1d 13h | 1,443 | 846 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 13:30 | July 5, 2022 23:30 | 10h | 1,337 | 2,678 |
| 10 | February 8, 2022 15:15 | February 9, 2022 18:30 | 1d 3h | 1,316 | 771 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 56 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Cass 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| Lake Country Power | 2022 | 26.8 hrs | 3.33 | 2.9 hrs | 1.43 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 4.32 | 2.1 hrs | 2.72 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2022 | 19.9 hrs | 2.06 | 77 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 23,771 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. Cass County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cass 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/cass-county