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2023 Swift County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Swift County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 5,874 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2645th 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 Swift 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 | August 23, 2023 10:00 | August 23, 2023 12:15 | 2h 15m | 810 | 1,021 |
| 2 | May 14, 2023 00:00 | May 14, 2023 08:00 | 8h | 368 | 2,655 |
| 3 | September 15, 2023 18:45 | September 15, 2023 20:30 | 1h 45m | 302 | 263 |
| 4 | April 27, 2023 04:45 | April 27, 2023 07:15 | 2h 30m | 238 | 559 |
| 5 | April 15, 2023 13:45 | April 15, 2023 14:30 | 45m | 178 | 134 |
| 6 | June 28, 2023 11:15 | June 28, 2023 13:15 | 2h | 90 | 180 |
| 7 | June 5, 2023 15:15 | June 5, 2023 16:15 | 1h | 89 | 68 |
| 8 | February 15, 2023 06:45 | February 15, 2023 16:00 | 9h 15m | 65 | 577 |
| 9 | September 7, 2023 17:45 | September 7, 2023 19:30 | 1h 45m | 57 | 65 |
| 10 | March 4, 2023 03:30 | March 4, 2023 05:15 | 1h 45m | 54 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Swift 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.9 hrs | 1.22 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Benson - (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 ÷ 5,384 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. Swift County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Swift 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/swift-county