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2022 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 590th 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 Lincoln 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 21, 2022 05:00 | June 21, 2022 15:15 | 10h 15m | 1,526 | 5,287 |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 22:30 | May 14, 2022 14:30 | 1d 16h | 1,065 | 24K |
| 3 | June 11, 2022 12:15 | June 11, 2022 13:45 | 1h 30m | 454 | 681 |
| 4 | October 14, 2022 12:30 | October 14, 2022 14:15 | 1h 45m | 57 | 100 |
| 5 | January 11, 2022 19:00 | January 11, 2022 21:15 | 2h 15m | 24 | 48 |
| 6 | June 2, 2022 04:15 | June 2, 2022 07:15 | 3h | 24 | 72 |
| 7 | December 15, 2022 02:45 | December 15, 2022 06:00 | 3h 15m | 24 | 78 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 18:15 | December 15, 2022 22:00 | 3h 45m | 24 | 90 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 19:15 | December 23, 2022 22:15 | 3h | 24 | 72 |
| 10 | June 12, 2022 06:15 | June 12, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 3 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2022 | 11.5 hrs | 2.53 | 2.2 hrs | 1.66 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2022 | 176.9 hrs | - | 74 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county