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2023 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2515th 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 Meeker 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 | December 20, 2023 20:45 | December 20, 2023 22:30 | 1h 45m | 1,632 | 2,448 |
| 2 | July 26, 2023 04:30 | July 27, 2023 01:00 | 20h 30m | 1,114 | 9,374 |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 13:00 | July 19, 2023 13:45 | 45m | 646 | 323 |
| 4 | February 8, 2023 01:15 | February 8, 2023 02:45 | 1h 30m | 354 | 494 |
| 5 | July 27, 2023 01:45 | July 27, 2023 06:45 | 5h | 76 | 121 |
| 6 | May 24, 2023 04:45 | May 24, 2023 08:45 | 4h | 44 | 154 |
| 7 | August 17, 2023 18:15 | August 17, 2023 20:15 | 2h | 30 | 45 |
| 8 | May 30, 2023 12:45 | May 30, 2023 22:45 | 10h | 26 | 74 |
| 9 | May 11, 2023 02:30 | May 11, 2023 05:15 | 2h 45m | 22 | 61 |
| 10 | July 14, 2023 01:30 | July 14, 2023 09:15 | 7h 45m | 22 | 171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 Meeker 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 Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county