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2022 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1051st 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 Chippewa 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 12, 2022 23:45 | May 14, 2022 03:45 | 1d 4h | 2,636 | 16K |
| 2 | May 30, 2022 08:45 | June 1, 2022 03:15 | 1d 18h | 2,447 | 13K |
| 3 | June 30, 2022 04:45 | July 1, 2022 00:45 | 20h | 1,652 | 10K |
| 4 | June 20, 2022 18:15 | June 20, 2022 18:45 | 30m | 402 | 168 |
| 5 | July 23, 2022 14:45 | July 23, 2022 21:30 | 6h 45m | 202 | 373 |
| 6 | June 29, 2022 21:15 | June 30, 2022 04:00 | 6h 45m | 57 | 174 |
| 7 | August 30, 2022 17:15 | August 30, 2022 19:00 | 1h 45m | 51 | 77 |
| 8 | June 28, 2022 22:00 | June 28, 2022 22:45 | 45m | 48 | 24 |
| 9 | October 28, 2022 16:45 | October 28, 2022 19:00 | 2h 15m | 47 | 101 |
| 10 | July 20, 2022 14:00 | July 20, 2022 18:00 | 4h | 30 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2022 | 176.9 hrs | - | 74 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2022 | 29.8 hrs | 2.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.39 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county