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2024 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 9,820 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2382nd 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 Pipestone 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 | July 12, 2024 00:45 | July 12, 2024 01:15 | 30m | 1,622 | 811 |
| 2 | August 1, 2024 02:45 | August 1, 2024 07:45 | 5h | 478 | 1,132 |
| 3 | December 25, 2024 05:15 | December 25, 2024 09:30 | 4h 15m | 473 | 1,841 |
| 4 | December 26, 2024 01:15 | December 26, 2024 06:30 | 5h 15m | 473 | 2,483 |
| 5 | September 27, 2024 12:45 | September 27, 2024 13:15 | 30m | 433 | 195 |
| 6 | February 19, 2024 15:30 | February 19, 2024 16:45 | 1h 15m | 108 | 135 |
| 7 | December 26, 2024 11:15 | December 26, 2024 19:00 | 7h 45m | 91 | 182 |
| 8 | May 29, 2024 14:30 | May 29, 2024 21:30 | 7h | 85 | 595 |
| 9 | October 31, 2024 10:30 | October 31, 2024 14:15 | 3h 45m | 84 | 230 |
| 10 | July 7, 2024 00:45 | July 7, 2024 06:15 | 5h 30m | 83 | 449 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 6 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 Pipestone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county