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2023 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 1,873 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2732nd 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 Yellow Medicine 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 29, 2023 16:30 | May 29, 2023 17:30 | 1h | 174 | 83 |
| 2 | April 20, 2023 03:00 | April 20, 2023 22:45 | 19h 45m | 112 | 769 |
| 3 | May 2, 2023 14:15 | May 2, 2023 20:15 | 6h | 46 | 201 |
| 4 | June 24, 2023 10:45 | June 24, 2023 13:30 | 2h 45m | 44 | 101 |
| 5 | May 18, 2023 14:00 | May 18, 2023 19:45 | 5h 45m | 32 | 40 |
| 6 | May 22, 2023 02:00 | May 22, 2023 03:15 | 1h 15m | 22 | 22 |
| 7 | August 28, 2023 14:00 | August 28, 2023 16:00 | 2h | 22 | 25 |
| 8 | May 8, 2023 14:00 | May 8, 2023 18:00 | 4h | 19 | 76 |
| 9 | April 25, 2023 14:00 | April 25, 2023 17:00 | 3h | 18 | 24 |
| 10 | August 22, 2023 14:15 | August 22, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 18 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county