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2022 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2718th 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 Clay 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 | June 20, 2022 23:45 | June 22, 2022 13:45 | 1d 14h | 3,018 | 14K |
| 2 | May 5, 2022 04:45 | May 5, 2022 06:45 | 2h | 762 | 1,336 |
| 3 | August 12, 2022 08:45 | August 12, 2022 14:30 | 5h 45m | 638 | 1,866 |
| 4 | March 1, 2022 17:15 | March 1, 2022 19:15 | 2h | 588 | 882 |
| 5 | August 23, 2022 22:15 | August 24, 2022 03:00 | 4h 45m | 262 | 472 |
| 6 | September 15, 2022 09:15 | September 15, 2022 09:30 | 15m | 237 | 59 |
| 7 | December 20, 2022 16:30 | December 20, 2022 21:45 | 5h 15m | 193 | 824 |
| 8 | September 24, 2022 01:30 | September 24, 2022 07:15 | 5h 45m | 180 | 943 |
| 9 | April 29, 2022 23:15 | April 30, 2022 04:15 | 5h | 177 | 885 |
| 10 | December 20, 2022 04:45 | December 20, 2022 10:00 | 5h 15m | 177 | 924 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2022 | 10.6 hrs | 2.46 | 1.9 hrs | 1.01 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2022 | 19 min | 0.42 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county