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2023 Pennington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pennington County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 171 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2948th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pennington County, 2023
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 15, 2023 09:45 | March 15, 2023 13:15 | 3h 30m | 50 | 133 |
| 2 | December 9, 2023 11:30 | December 9, 2023 12:30 | 1h | 31 | 25 |
| 3 | December 9, 2023 16:00 | December 9, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 8 | 2 |
| 4 | July 17, 2023 12:30 | July 17, 2023 13:45 | 1h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | December 9, 2023 22:45 | December 10, 2023 01:45 | 3h | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | December 11, 2023 02:15 | December 11, 2023 03:15 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 0 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 Pennington 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 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| City of Thief River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,940 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. Pennington County has data for 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pennington 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/pennington-county