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2022 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 775th 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 Pipestone 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 02:00 | June 22, 2022 02:15 | 1d | 2,661 | 8,765 |
| 2 | December 26, 2022 21:30 | December 26, 2022 23:30 | 2h | 1,358 | 1,669 |
| 3 | December 13, 2022 13:15 | December 14, 2022 02:00 | 12h 45m | 915 | 4,890 |
| 4 | December 9, 2022 16:15 | December 9, 2022 18:30 | 2h 15m | 720 | 184 |
| 5 | June 3, 2022 03:45 | June 3, 2022 07:00 | 3h 15m | 719 | 1,618 |
| 6 | July 5, 2022 22:15 | July 6, 2022 01:15 | 3h | 715 | 538 |
| 7 | September 7, 2022 20:45 | September 7, 2022 21:30 | 45m | 715 | 536 |
| 8 | May 12, 2022 22:45 | May 15, 2022 12:45 | 2d 14h | 620 | 15K |
| 9 | November 22, 2022 01:00 | November 22, 2022 05:15 | 4h 15m | 481 | 634 |
| 10 | December 13, 2022 05:45 | December 13, 2022 11:30 | 5h 45m | 480 | 581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 16 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 Pipestone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county