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2024 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 8,316 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1951st 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 Yellow Medicine 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 11, 2024 04:00 | December 11, 2024 08:30 | 4h 30m | 699 | 2,144 |
| 2 | April 14, 2024 00:15 | April 14, 2024 00:30 | 15m | 583 | 146 |
| 3 | April 15, 2024 00:15 | April 15, 2024 00:30 | 15m | 583 | 146 |
| 4 | October 17, 2024 13:45 | October 17, 2024 15:00 | 1h 15m | 497 | 497 |
| 5 | May 13, 2024 15:30 | May 13, 2024 16:45 | 1h 15m | 476 | 476 |
| 6 | September 17, 2024 10:30 | September 17, 2024 13:00 | 2h 30m | 476 | 833 |
| 7 | August 22, 2024 17:00 | August 22, 2024 19:45 | 2h 45m | 475 | 949 |
| 8 | July 31, 2024 17:45 | July 31, 2024 18:30 | 45m | 474 | 356 |
| 9 | April 7, 2024 07:45 | April 7, 2024 13:15 | 5h 30m | 276 | 645 |
| 10 | February 14, 2024 17:15 | February 14, 2024 18:45 | 1h 30m | 217 | 274 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 15 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county