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2024 Cass County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cass County, MN went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1155th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cass County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 6, 2024 02:45 | October 7, 2024 04:30 | 1d 1h | 6,018 | 27K |
| 2 | October 12, 2024 11:30 | October 12, 2024 18:00 | 6h 30m | 2,918 | 6,362 |
| 3 | June 4, 2024 14:30 | June 6, 2024 15:15 | 2d | 2,517 | 20K |
| 4 | August 3, 2024 12:00 | August 5, 2024 12:15 | 2d | 2,308 | 6,922 |
| 5 | July 31, 2024 20:45 | August 1, 2024 13:00 | 16h 15m | 1,980 | 3,243 |
| 6 | July 4, 2024 23:00 | July 5, 2024 01:30 | 2h 30m | 1,875 | 3,035 |
| 7 | June 12, 2024 22:45 | June 14, 2024 15:30 | 1d 16h | 1,598 | 7,903 |
| 8 | February 8, 2024 05:15 | February 8, 2024 18:30 | 13h 15m | 1,567 | 13K |
| 9 | June 18, 2024 19:30 | June 19, 2024 23:45 | 1d 4h | 1,514 | 7,124 |
| 10 | December 4, 2024 17:00 | December 4, 2024 22:15 | 5h 15m | 1,297 | 1,840 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 53 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Cass County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Lake Country Power | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 2.31 | 3.1 hrs | 1.52 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.31 | 1.6 hrs | 1.18 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.8 hrs | 1.38 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 | 74 min | 0.65 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,771 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. Cass County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cass County, MN annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/minnesota/cass-county