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2023 Traverse County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Traverse County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 4,037 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2399th 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 Traverse 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 | April 5, 2023 19:15 | April 5, 2023 22:30 | 3h 15m | 997 | 1,705 |
| 2 | July 13, 2023 07:45 | July 13, 2023 09:15 | 1h 30m | 978 | 1,222 |
| 3 | March 9, 2023 19:30 | March 9, 2023 21:30 | 2h | 620 | 856 |
| 4 | December 25, 2023 21:00 | December 25, 2023 22:45 | 1h 45m | 618 | 159 |
| 5 | July 4, 2023 10:00 | July 4, 2023 12:45 | 2h 45m | 22 | 50 |
| 6 | September 26, 2023 19:00 | September 26, 2023 19:15 | 15m | 12 | 3 |
| 7 | July 26, 2023 04:00 | July 26, 2023 05:30 | 1h 30m | 10 | 15 |
| 8 | April 8, 2023 10:45 | April 8, 2023 12:00 | 1h 15m | 5 | 5 |
| 9 | September 26, 2023 21:30 | September 26, 2023 22:15 | 45m | 5 | 4 |
| 10 | September 20, 2023 15:00 | September 20, 2023 15:15 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
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 Traverse 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 |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,357 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. Traverse County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traverse 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/traverse-county