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2023 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 9,396 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1948th 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 Wilkin 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 30, 2023 05:30 | May 30, 2023 07:30 | 2h | 664 | 605 |
| 2 | February 15, 2023 03:45 | February 15, 2023 15:45 | 12h | 663 | 3,420 |
| 3 | December 3, 2023 19:45 | December 3, 2023 22:15 | 2h 30m | 534 | 1,201 |
| 4 | March 31, 2023 12:15 | March 31, 2023 13:45 | 1h 30m | 475 | 184 |
| 5 | February 23, 2023 14:45 | February 23, 2023 15:00 | 15m | 410 | 103 |
| 6 | November 28, 2023 07:00 | November 28, 2023 12:45 | 5h 45m | 379 | 1,080 |
| 7 | May 23, 2023 19:00 | May 23, 2023 20:00 | 1h | 182 | 137 |
| 8 | July 24, 2023 13:30 | July 24, 2023 13:45 | 15m | 170 | 43 |
| 9 | July 24, 2023 16:15 | July 24, 2023 17:15 | 1h | 170 | 170 |
| 10 | September 20, 2023 14:00 | September 20, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 130 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county