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2023 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 5,879 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2627th 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 Murray 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 | March 10, 2023 17:15 | March 10, 2023 21:30 | 4h 15m | 440 | 1,358 |
| 2 | December 16, 2023 18:00 | December 16, 2023 18:15 | 15m | 344 | 86 |
| 3 | December 25, 2023 07:30 | December 26, 2023 09:45 | 1d 2h | 318 | 2,404 |
| 4 | October 25, 2023 07:45 | October 25, 2023 09:00 | 1h 15m | 250 | 313 |
| 5 | September 22, 2023 21:00 | September 23, 2023 03:00 | 6h | 224 | 135 |
| 6 | September 19, 2023 13:15 | September 19, 2023 15:45 | 2h 30m | 215 | 56 |
| 7 | April 9, 2023 22:30 | April 10, 2023 01:15 | 2h 45m | 109 | 264 |
| 8 | December 18, 2023 03:15 | December 18, 2023 08:45 | 5h 30m | 54 | 187 |
| 9 | May 30, 2023 10:30 | May 30, 2023 14:00 | 3h 30m | 50 | 113 |
| 10 | December 29, 2023 21:45 | December 29, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 33 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2023 | 60 min | 1.46 | 60 min | 1.46 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 | 51 min | 0.69 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county