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2023 Clearwater County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Clearwater County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 301 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2929th 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 Clearwater 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 | March 30, 2023 17:45 | March 30, 2023 18:15 | 30m | 198 | 99 |
| 2 | April 6, 2023 22:00 | April 6, 2023 23:30 | 1h 30m | 41 | 42 |
| 3 | December 11, 2023 15:15 | December 11, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 35 | 26 |
| 4 | September 11, 2023 15:15 | September 11, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 31 | 23 |
| 5 | January 19, 2023 18:45 | January 19, 2023 20:00 | 1h 15m | 12 | 15 |
| 6 | June 26, 2023 20:30 | June 26, 2023 21:00 | 30m | 10 | 5 |
| 7 | July 16, 2023 23:15 | July 17, 2023 01:45 | 2h 30m | 10 | 25 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 19:30 | April 5, 2023 20:30 | 1h | 7 | 7 |
| 9 | July 27, 2023 13:30 | July 27, 2023 13:45 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 10 | September 8, 2023 12:30 | September 8, 2023 14:45 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Clearwater 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 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 2.07 | 88 min | 1.10 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 2.99 | 1.8 hrs | 2.53 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bagley 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 ÷ 5,121 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. Clearwater County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clearwater 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/clearwater-county