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2022 Polk County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, MN went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1527th 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 Polk 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 | July 18, 2022 07:45 | July 18, 2022 09:15 | 1h 30m | 1,239 | 1,859 |
| 2 | June 20, 2022 21:45 | June 20, 2022 23:30 | 1h 45m | 1,144 | 1,618 |
| 3 | July 25, 2022 21:00 | July 25, 2022 22:15 | 1h 15m | 834 | 1,043 |
| 4 | September 3, 2022 13:15 | September 6, 2022 02:00 | 2d 12h | 834 | 51K |
| 5 | June 21, 2022 18:30 | June 23, 2022 16:15 | 1d 21h | 761 | 12K |
| 6 | April 13, 2022 04:30 | April 13, 2022 15:00 | 10h 30m | 746 | 7,833 |
| 7 | May 31, 2022 16:45 | May 31, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 629 | 606 |
| 8 | May 24, 2022 03:45 | May 24, 2022 06:30 | 2h 45m | 526 | 1,447 |
| 9 | July 23, 2022 10:30 | July 23, 2022 14:30 | 4h | 521 | 2,084 |
| 10 | April 23, 2022 04:45 | April 24, 2022 15:15 | 1d 10h | 442 | 4,078 |
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 Polk 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 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Grand Forks - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fosston - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nielsville - (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 ÷ 19,237 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. Polk County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county