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2022 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 875th 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 Pope 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 12, 2022 19:30 | May 14, 2022 23:30 | 2d 4h | 1,611 | 34K |
| 2 | October 18, 2022 17:30 | October 19, 2022 00:15 | 6h 45m | 1,216 | 2,289 |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 22:45 | October 1, 2022 02:15 | 3h 30m | 919 | 2,526 |
| 4 | July 30, 2022 02:45 | July 30, 2022 04:45 | 2h | 718 | 1,256 |
| 5 | June 21, 2022 04:30 | June 21, 2022 21:00 | 16h 30m | 275 | 2,802 |
| 6 | July 23, 2022 14:15 | July 23, 2022 21:15 | 7h | 240 | 1,257 |
| 7 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | May 31, 2022 09:15 | 11h 45m | 235 | 1,544 |
| 8 | July 6, 2022 18:15 | July 6, 2022 21:15 | 3h | 220 | 479 |
| 9 | November 9, 2022 05:15 | November 9, 2022 06:00 | 45m | 193 | 145 |
| 10 | July 10, 2022 17:00 | July 10, 2022 18:45 | 1h 45m | 155 | 215 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 14 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2022 | 20.4 hrs | 3.08 | 67 min | 0.97 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2022 | 29.8 hrs | 2.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.39 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 | 64 min | 0.56 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county