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2025 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 1976th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chippewa County, 2025
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 27, 2025 18:00 | July 29, 2025 00:00 | 1d 6h | 1,643 | 6,034 |
| 2 | July 21, 2025 11:30 | July 21, 2025 16:00 | 4h 30m | 969 | 1,450 |
| 3 | March 16, 2025 16:15 | March 16, 2025 18:45 | 2h 30m | 905 | 1,810 |
| 4 | March 15, 2025 10:45 | March 15, 2025 21:45 | 11h | 790 | 2,431 |
| 5 | August 16, 2025 10:30 | August 17, 2025 00:15 | 13h 45m | 462 | 1,371 |
| 6 | July 10, 2025 01:15 | July 10, 2025 21:15 | 20h | 350 | 797 |
| 7 | July 26, 2025 17:00 | July 26, 2025 21:00 | 4h | 267 | 801 |
| 8 | June 22, 2025 19:00 | June 22, 2025 23:45 | 4h 45m | 254 | 559 |
| 9 | June 2, 2025 20:45 | June 3, 2025 07:15 | 10h 30m | 147 | 1,032 |
| 10 | October 13, 2025 14:15 | October 13, 2025 15:45 | 1h 30m | 85 | 107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 9 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 Chippewa County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.81 | 2.5 hrs | 0.81 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2024 | 68 min | 1.00 | 68 min | 0.99 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa County, MN annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/minnesota/chippewa-county