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2024 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2478th 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 Pope 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 28, 2024 04:15 | May 28, 2024 11:45 | 7h 30m | 748 | 5,417 |
| 2 | June 7, 2024 11:45 | June 7, 2024 17:00 | 5h 15m | 337 | 1,095 |
| 3 | February 24, 2024 22:30 | February 25, 2024 01:00 | 2h 30m | 182 | 276 |
| 4 | June 10, 2024 16:15 | June 10, 2024 17:45 | 1h 30m | 181 | 227 |
| 5 | May 31, 2024 05:00 | May 31, 2024 06:00 | 1h | 134 | 101 |
| 6 | June 6, 2024 19:00 | June 6, 2024 21:15 | 2h 15m | 134 | 302 |
| 7 | August 5, 2024 12:30 | August 5, 2024 20:45 | 8h 15m | 118 | 472 |
| 8 | August 1, 2024 00:15 | August 1, 2024 12:00 | 11h 45m | 75 | 382 |
| 9 | December 26, 2024 04:45 | December 26, 2024 08:30 | 3h 45m | 74 | 278 |
| 10 | January 23, 2024 15:00 | January 23, 2024 17:30 | 2h 30m | 68 | 170 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2024 | 68 min | 0.52 | 52 min | 0.46 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2024 | 68 min | 1.00 | 68 min | 0.99 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.82 | 57 min | 0.61 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county