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2023 Kandiyohi County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kandiyohi County, MN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1754th 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 Kandiyohi 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 | July 26, 2023 04:15 | July 27, 2023 05:45 | 1d 1h | 6,530 | 66K |
| 2 | February 8, 2023 01:15 | February 8, 2023 02:45 | 1h 30m | 1,032 | 768 |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 13:00 | July 19, 2023 13:45 | 45m | 822 | 411 |
| 4 | August 11, 2023 03:15 | August 11, 2023 07:45 | 4h 30m | 496 | 1,488 |
| 5 | November 14, 2023 06:00 | November 14, 2023 10:15 | 4h 15m | 480 | 1,922 |
| 6 | September 15, 2023 18:45 | September 15, 2023 19:45 | 1h | 360 | 330 |
| 7 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 19, 2023 15:45 | 1h 45m | 109 | 191 |
| 8 | January 16, 2023 16:30 | January 16, 2023 17:45 | 1h 15m | 92 | 48 |
| 9 | June 8, 2023 16:45 | June 8, 2023 22:15 | 5h 30m | 63 | 73 |
| 10 | August 18, 2023 03:30 | August 18, 2023 09:00 | 5h 30m | 52 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Kandiyohi 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.9 hrs | 1.22 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2023 | 77 min | 1.12 | 77 min | 1.12 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.11 | 90 min | 1.08 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities | 2023 | 88 min | 1.75 | 40 min | 0.76 |
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 ÷ 20,235 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. Kandiyohi County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kandiyohi 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/kandiyohi-county