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2023 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 4,555 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2746th 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 Chippewa 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 | November 2, 2023 21:45 | November 2, 2023 22:30 | 45m | 787 | 590 |
| 2 | July 26, 2023 13:00 | July 26, 2023 20:00 | 7h | 554 | 441 |
| 3 | May 31, 2023 21:15 | May 31, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 246 | 125 |
| 4 | September 30, 2023 22:00 | October 1, 2023 06:15 | 8h 15m | 228 | 1,470 |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 02:15 | August 11, 2023 05:45 | 3h 30m | 160 | 303 |
| 6 | July 11, 2023 17:15 | July 12, 2023 00:30 | 7h 15m | 82 | 55 |
| 7 | August 30, 2023 13:30 | August 30, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 58 | 66 |
| 8 | November 28, 2023 15:00 | November 28, 2023 18:30 | 3h 30m | 54 | 183 |
| 9 | March 8, 2023 15:15 | March 8, 2023 22:30 | 7h 15m | 51 | 96 |
| 10 | September 29, 2023 21:45 | September 30, 2023 03:15 | 5h 30m | 32 | 77 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.9 hrs | 1.22 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county