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2022 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 383rd 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 Yellow Medicine 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 23:00 | May 14, 2022 05:30 | 1d 6h | 726 | 6,450 |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 01:45 | June 21, 2022 22:45 | 21h | 702 | 2,616 |
| 3 | May 30, 2022 08:45 | June 1, 2022 19:15 | 2d 10h | 622 | 17K |
| 4 | September 23, 2022 15:30 | September 23, 2022 16:15 | 45m | 588 | 293 |
| 5 | April 30, 2022 06:15 | April 30, 2022 09:30 | 3h 15m | 499 | 1,499 |
| 6 | June 15, 2022 11:45 | June 15, 2022 14:30 | 2h 45m | 479 | 812 |
| 7 | June 30, 2022 05:15 | June 30, 2022 20:30 | 15h 15m | 456 | 1,888 |
| 8 | April 12, 2022 16:30 | April 13, 2022 17:30 | 1d 1h | 449 | 6,068 |
| 9 | November 16, 2022 15:15 | November 16, 2022 16:45 | 1h 30m | 437 | 549 |
| 10 | June 17, 2022 16:30 | June 17, 2022 18:00 | 1h 30m | 245 | 368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2022 | 176.9 hrs | - | 74 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county