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2023 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2791st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 20, 2023 23:15 | April 21, 2023 22:30 | 23h 15m | 586 | 5,592 |
| 2 | April 30, 2023 17:15 | April 30, 2023 22:00 | 4h 45m | 394 | 986 |
| 3 | May 18, 2023 11:45 | May 18, 2023 14:30 | 2h 45m | 314 | 864 |
| 4 | May 18, 2023 17:45 | May 18, 2023 18:45 | 1h | 314 | 314 |
| 5 | May 28, 2023 06:45 | May 28, 2023 09:45 | 3h | 314 | 942 |
| 6 | May 28, 2023 18:00 | May 28, 2023 18:45 | 45m | 314 | 231 |
| 7 | May 15, 2023 14:30 | May 15, 2023 14:45 | 15m | 305 | 76 |
| 8 | May 17, 2023 15:15 | May 17, 2023 18:15 | 3h | 305 | 915 |
| 9 | August 11, 2023 23:00 | August 12, 2023 01:45 | 2h 45m | 252 | 489 |
| 10 | August 13, 2023 05:00 | August 13, 2023 07:45 | 2h 45m | 188 | 510 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.78 | 1.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 2.99 | 1.8 hrs | 2.53 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2018 | 8 min | 0.52 | 8 min | 0.52 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/minnesota/becker-county