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2023 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 8,916 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2854th 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 Clay 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 23, 2023 19:00 | May 23, 2023 20:30 | 1h 30m | 6,436 | 4,828 |
| 2 | August 11, 2023 01:15 | August 11, 2023 03:15 | 2h | 426 | 852 |
| 3 | September 25, 2023 20:15 | September 26, 2023 01:15 | 5h | 130 | 650 |
| 4 | December 25, 2023 22:45 | December 26, 2023 03:00 | 4h 15m | 123 | 399 |
| 5 | October 17, 2023 22:30 | October 18, 2023 00:30 | 2h | 67 | 132 |
| 6 | June 20, 2023 14:00 | June 20, 2023 20:00 | 6h | 63 | 175 |
| 7 | November 18, 2023 14:00 | November 18, 2023 15:15 | 1h 15m | 62 | 62 |
| 8 | August 24, 2023 17:00 | August 24, 2023 17:45 | 45m | 50 | 38 |
| 9 | June 30, 2023 10:00 | June 30, 2023 13:00 | 3h | 44 | 132 |
| 10 | June 13, 2023 13:30 | June 13, 2023 15:30 | 2h | 42 | 84 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2023 | 25 min | 0.67 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county