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2024 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 3,364 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2619th 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 Lincoln 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 | May 7, 2024 02:30 | May 7, 2024 05:15 | 2h 45m | 1,087 | 2,428 |
| 2 | July 19, 2024 12:15 | July 19, 2024 13:00 | 45m | 801 | 202 |
| 3 | November 19, 2024 10:15 | November 19, 2024 11:45 | 1h 30m | 250 | 319 |
| 4 | August 26, 2024 07:45 | August 26, 2024 09:45 | 2h | 174 | 235 |
| 5 | January 4, 2024 17:30 | January 4, 2024 17:45 | 15m | 26 | 7 |
| 6 | April 16, 2024 12:15 | April 16, 2024 13:30 | 1h 15m | 23 | 26 |
| 7 | May 7, 2024 23:15 | May 8, 2024 01:00 | 1h 45m | 23 | 40 |
| 8 | February 14, 2024 19:45 | February 14, 2024 20:45 | 1h | 21 | 16 |
| 9 | June 3, 2024 14:30 | June 3, 2024 14:45 | 15m | 18 | 5 |
| 10 | March 18, 2024 17:15 | March 18, 2024 18:30 | 1h 15m | 12 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2024 | 46 min | 0.92 | 46 min | 0.92 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.81 | 2.5 hrs | 0.81 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
| City of Tyler - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county