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2022 Otter Tail County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Otter Tail County, MN went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 474K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 662nd 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 Otter Tail 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 00:45 | May 14, 2022 09:15 | 1d 8h | 12,946 | 140K |
| 2 | June 20, 2022 21:15 | June 23, 2022 20:00 | 2d 22h | 8,370 | 173K |
| 3 | June 10, 2022 16:15 | June 10, 2022 17:15 | 1h | 4,567 | 1,975 |
| 4 | May 8, 2022 04:30 | May 9, 2022 12:30 | 1d 8h | 3,484 | 31K |
| 5 | November 10, 2022 19:00 | November 10, 2022 22:30 | 3h 30m | 2,860 | 6,139 |
| 6 | June 14, 2022 15:30 | June 14, 2022 17:45 | 2h 15m | 2,803 | 2,109 |
| 7 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | May 31, 2022 05:45 | 8h 15m | 2,711 | 7,679 |
| 8 | July 7, 2022 17:15 | July 7, 2022 20:00 | 2h 45m | 1,901 | 887 |
| 9 | June 24, 2022 14:00 | June 27, 2022 00:45 | 2d 10h | 1,451 | 21K |
| 10 | January 26, 2022 20:00 | January 26, 2022 20:15 | 15m | 1,376 | 344 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 87 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Otter Tail 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 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 |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | 2018 | 2 min | 0.07 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Henning - (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 ÷ 43,936 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. Otter Tail County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otter Tail 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/otter-tail-county