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2022 Swift County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Swift County, MN went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1583rd 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 Swift County, 2022
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 21, 2022 13:30 | August 21, 2022 17:30 | 4h | 1,373 | 5,492 |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 23:45 | May 14, 2022 03:45 | 1d 4h | 574 | 8,685 |
| 3 | October 24, 2022 03:00 | October 25, 2022 04:45 | 1d 1h | 330 | 8,498 |
| 4 | May 12, 2022 12:45 | May 12, 2022 13:15 | 30m | 99 | 50 |
| 5 | May 30, 2022 23:45 | May 31, 2022 02:00 | 2h 15m | 99 | 223 |
| 6 | June 27, 2022 21:30 | June 27, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 14 | 11 |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 03:15 | December 23, 2022 04:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Swift 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2022 | 176.9 hrs | - | 74 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2022 | 29.8 hrs | 2.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.39 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Benson - (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 ÷ 5,384 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. Swift County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Swift 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/swift-county