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2023 Lac qui Parle County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lac qui Parle County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 4,043 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2226th 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 Lac qui Parle 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 11, 2023 20:45 | May 11, 2023 22:00 | 1h 15m | 200 | 250 |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 15:30 | April 27, 2023 19:30 | 4h | 161 | 613 |
| 3 | May 8, 2023 17:45 | May 8, 2023 20:15 | 2h 30m | 161 | 403 |
| 4 | June 1, 2023 15:15 | June 1, 2023 16:15 | 1h | 160 | 42 |
| 5 | February 15, 2023 04:45 | February 15, 2023 15:00 | 10h 15m | 144 | 1,338 |
| 6 | April 25, 2023 15:45 | April 25, 2023 22:00 | 6h 15m | 123 | 769 |
| 7 | August 12, 2023 19:30 | August 13, 2023 01:00 | 5h 30m | 74 | 279 |
| 8 | March 29, 2023 20:30 | March 29, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 38 | 10 |
| 9 | December 15, 2023 18:30 | December 15, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 37 | 9 |
| 10 | May 14, 2023 17:00 | May 14, 2023 22:00 | 5h | 26 | 130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 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 Lac qui Parle 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Madison - (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 ÷ 1,882 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. Lac qui Parle County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lac qui Parle 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/lac-qui-parle-county