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2023 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2755th 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 McLeod 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 19, 2023 23:00 | July 20, 2023 09:30 | 10h 30m | 3,372 | 7,377 |
| 2 | December 7, 2023 17:45 | December 7, 2023 21:45 | 4h | 2,380 | 1,584 |
| 3 | May 6, 2023 16:15 | May 6, 2023 20:15 | 4h | 358 | 95 |
| 4 | November 16, 2023 19:15 | November 17, 2023 02:45 | 7h 30m | 179 | 348 |
| 5 | November 5, 2023 21:15 | November 5, 2023 23:45 | 2h 30m | 164 | 379 |
| 6 | October 31, 2023 02:00 | October 31, 2023 08:00 | 6h | 118 | 341 |
| 7 | June 10, 2023 20:30 | June 10, 2023 23:30 | 3h | 100 | 116 |
| 8 | October 22, 2023 12:00 | October 22, 2023 21:45 | 9h 45m | 82 | 320 |
| 9 | July 17, 2023 14:15 | July 17, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 64 | 80 |
| 10 | December 26, 2023 15:15 | December 26, 2023 18:15 | 3h | 44 | 72 |
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 McLeod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2023 | 62 min | 0.76 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2023 | 77 min | 1.12 | 77 min | 1.12 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson 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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county