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2022 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2342nd 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 Douglas 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 13, 2022 00:15 | May 13, 2022 22:30 | 22h 15m | 2,315 | 23K |
| 2 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | June 1, 2022 19:15 | 1d 21h | 1,843 | 8,581 |
| 3 | April 9, 2022 18:45 | April 9, 2022 19:00 | 15m | 1,450 | 363 |
| 4 | August 25, 2022 16:15 | August 25, 2022 16:30 | 15m | 541 | 135 |
| 5 | September 6, 2022 17:15 | September 6, 2022 17:30 | 15m | 441 | 110 |
| 6 | September 26, 2022 18:15 | September 26, 2022 18:45 | 30m | 441 | 221 |
| 7 | May 16, 2022 14:45 | May 17, 2022 01:15 | 10h 30m | 391 | 4,098 |
| 8 | August 1, 2022 01:15 | August 1, 2022 04:30 | 3h 15m | 390 | 1,268 |
| 9 | August 6, 2022 11:00 | August 6, 2022 13:45 | 2h 45m | 390 | 878 |
| 10 | May 12, 2022 21:30 | May 12, 2022 22:45 | 1h 15m | 373 | 466 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 14 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2022 | 20.4 hrs | 3.08 | 67 min | 0.97 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 | 64 min | 0.56 |
| City of Alexandria - (MN) | 2022 | 7 min | 0.11 | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county