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2023 Cass County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cass County, MN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1765th 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 Cass 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 | May 24, 2023 11:30 | May 24, 2023 21:15 | 9h 45m | 1,809 | 1,221 |
| 2 | January 21, 2023 18:30 | January 22, 2023 08:00 | 13h 30m | 1,774 | 3,212 |
| 3 | January 25, 2023 14:45 | January 25, 2023 20:15 | 5h 30m | 1,553 | 1,204 |
| 4 | July 5, 2023 12:45 | July 5, 2023 13:45 | 1h | 1,485 | 1,485 |
| 5 | April 9, 2023 08:15 | April 9, 2023 11:45 | 3h 30m | 1,386 | 1,684 |
| 6 | December 28, 2023 15:30 | December 28, 2023 21:00 | 5h 30m | 938 | 511 |
| 7 | April 21, 2023 05:00 | April 21, 2023 08:45 | 3h 45m | 638 | 2,389 |
| 8 | November 9, 2023 13:00 | November 9, 2023 21:45 | 8h 45m | 636 | 255 |
| 9 | April 15, 2023 12:15 | April 15, 2023 14:45 | 2h 30m | 602 | 939 |
| 10 | October 2, 2023 10:30 | October 2, 2023 18:30 | 8h | 569 | 829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 61 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Cass 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Lake Country Power | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 2.07 | 88 min | 1.10 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 2.99 | 1.8 hrs | 2.53 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2023 | 75 min | 0.70 | 56 min | 0.58 |
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 ÷ 23,771 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. Cass County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cass 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/cass-county