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2024 Polk County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2743rd 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 Polk 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 28, 2024 12:45 | July 28, 2024 20:45 | 8h | 2,331 | 7,972 |
| 2 | May 16, 2024 14:30 | May 16, 2024 15:45 | 1h 15m | 986 | 255 |
| 3 | August 29, 2024 08:30 | August 29, 2024 15:00 | 6h 30m | 744 | 1,946 |
| 4 | June 29, 2024 03:45 | June 29, 2024 04:45 | 1h | 509 | 509 |
| 5 | November 19, 2024 15:30 | November 19, 2024 16:00 | 30m | 398 | 105 |
| 6 | June 3, 2024 14:45 | June 3, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 377 | 95 |
| 7 | April 17, 2024 08:45 | April 17, 2024 10:15 | 1h 30m | 350 | 525 |
| 8 | November 19, 2024 10:00 | November 19, 2024 12:00 | 2h | 299 | 488 |
| 9 | July 16, 2024 13:00 | July 16, 2024 17:30 | 4h 30m | 262 | 1,009 |
| 10 | March 17, 2024 17:45 | March 17, 2024 20:15 | 2h 30m | 167 | 337 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 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 Polk 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 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Grand Forks - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fosston - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nielsville - (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 ÷ 19,237 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. Polk County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county