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2023 Norman County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Norman County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 4,144 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2236th 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 Norman 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 | October 27, 2023 07:45 | October 27, 2023 10:30 | 2h 45m | 596 | 1,476 |
| 2 | December 9, 2023 06:00 | December 9, 2023 14:30 | 8h 30m | 522 | 1,752 |
| 3 | July 27, 2023 04:30 | July 27, 2023 05:45 | 1h 15m | 137 | 152 |
| 4 | October 3, 2023 05:15 | October 3, 2023 08:00 | 2h 45m | 137 | 377 |
| 5 | December 26, 2023 09:45 | December 26, 2023 15:15 | 5h 30m | 49 | 270 |
| 6 | August 11, 2023 01:00 | August 11, 2023 03:15 | 2h 15m | 10 | 20 |
| 7 | May 23, 2023 23:15 | May 24, 2023 01:45 | 2h 30m | 9 | 23 |
| 8 | July 10, 2023 20:30 | July 10, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 9 | July 12, 2023 21:15 | July 12, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
| 10 | June 25, 2023 13:30 | June 25, 2023 14:15 | 45m | 4 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 Norman 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 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ada - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Halstad - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelly - (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 ÷ 1,952 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. Norman County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norman 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/norman-county