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2023 Otter Tail County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Otter Tail County, MN went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1711th 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 Otter Tail 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 | May 28, 2023 11:00 | May 28, 2023 15:15 | 4h 15m | 4,957 | 4,033 |
| 2 | April 6, 2023 06:00 | April 6, 2023 11:30 | 5h 30m | 2,754 | 6,661 |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 19:00 | August 4, 2023 21:45 | 2h 45m | 2,600 | 2,255 |
| 4 | August 1, 2023 21:30 | August 2, 2023 09:30 | 12h | 2,458 | 7,701 |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 02:30 | August 11, 2023 07:15 | 4h 45m | 2,442 | 2,910 |
| 6 | August 31, 2023 18:00 | September 1, 2023 02:30 | 8h 30m | 2,440 | 2,183 |
| 7 | July 17, 2023 04:45 | July 17, 2023 09:00 | 4h 15m | 2,157 | 3,683 |
| 8 | April 20, 2023 20:00 | April 22, 2023 00:00 | 1d 4h | 1,950 | 16K |
| 9 | August 9, 2023 12:30 | August 9, 2023 22:00 | 9h 30m | 1,915 | 3,885 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 23:45 | August 9, 2023 06:15 | 6h 30m | 1,616 | 3,768 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 144 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Otter Tail 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2023 | 56 min | 0.58 | 56 min | 0.58 |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | 2018 | 2 min | 0.07 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Henning - (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 ÷ 43,936 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. Otter Tail County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otter Tail 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/otter-tail-county