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2024 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 8,608 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2888th 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 Clay 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 | December 18, 2024 21:00 | December 18, 2024 21:45 | 45m | 582 | 307 |
| 2 | July 14, 2024 02:00 | July 15, 2024 16:00 | 1d 14h | 388 | 4,813 |
| 3 | October 6, 2024 03:30 | October 6, 2024 08:30 | 5h | 370 | 919 |
| 4 | June 18, 2024 09:00 | June 18, 2024 17:30 | 8h 30m | 155 | 487 |
| 5 | April 15, 2024 16:30 | April 15, 2024 17:00 | 30m | 152 | 76 |
| 6 | December 9, 2024 18:30 | December 9, 2024 22:30 | 4h | 99 | 272 |
| 7 | September 26, 2024 19:00 | September 26, 2024 20:00 | 1h | 91 | 91 |
| 8 | January 16, 2024 11:45 | January 16, 2024 13:45 | 2h | 88 | 115 |
| 9 | December 24, 2024 14:15 | December 24, 2024 23:45 | 9h 30m | 73 | 119 |
| 10 | May 25, 2024 08:45 | May 25, 2024 10:30 | 1h 45m | 52 | 79 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 Clay 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 1.82 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2024 | 9 min | 0.34 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county