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2023 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1451st 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 Lincoln 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 | June 24, 2023 10:45 | June 24, 2023 14:00 | 3h 15m | 1,448 | 3,702 |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 19:15 | April 5, 2023 22:00 | 2h 45m | 1,349 | 2,351 |
| 3 | October 13, 2023 09:15 | October 13, 2023 12:45 | 3h 30m | 834 | 1,785 |
| 4 | December 11, 2023 20:15 | December 11, 2023 22:30 | 2h 15m | 441 | 893 |
| 5 | April 11, 2023 14:45 | April 11, 2023 20:30 | 5h 45m | 440 | 2,530 |
| 6 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 19, 2023 15:45 | 1h 45m | 440 | 770 |
| 7 | October 25, 2023 22:15 | October 25, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 440 | 550 |
| 8 | April 13, 2023 19:45 | April 13, 2023 20:45 | 1h | 48 | 36 |
| 9 | April 27, 2023 17:00 | April 27, 2023 19:15 | 2h 15m | 48 | 60 |
| 10 | May 16, 2023 00:00 | May 16, 2023 03:30 | 3h 30m | 48 | 120 |
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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2023 | 60 min | 1.46 | 60 min | 1.46 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county