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2023 Polk County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Polk County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2514th 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 Polk 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 | July 10, 2023 02:15 | July 10, 2023 03:45 | 1h 30m | 2,473 | 3,400 |
| 2 | April 18, 2023 01:15 | April 18, 2023 02:15 | 1h | 1,751 | 1,336 |
| 3 | August 1, 2023 11:00 | August 1, 2023 13:15 | 2h 15m | 1,200 | 501 |
| 4 | September 8, 2023 12:15 | September 8, 2023 14:45 | 2h 30m | 766 | 1,816 |
| 5 | October 27, 2023 07:45 | October 27, 2023 12:45 | 5h | 622 | 1,827 |
| 6 | July 27, 2023 04:30 | July 27, 2023 05:45 | 1h 15m | 621 | 679 |
| 7 | December 9, 2023 06:00 | December 9, 2023 20:30 | 14h 30m | 620 | 5,104 |
| 8 | June 29, 2023 12:30 | June 29, 2023 13:00 | 30m | 566 | 283 |
| 9 | January 17, 2023 08:15 | January 17, 2023 15:45 | 7h 30m | 395 | 1,681 |
| 10 | December 14, 2023 20:15 | December 14, 2023 22:00 | 1h 45m | 311 | 544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Polk 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 Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Grand Forks - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fosston - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nielsville - (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 ÷ 19,237 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. Polk County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county