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2025 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2777th 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 Clay 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 | June 19, 2025 02:15 | June 19, 2025 07:30 | 5h 15m | 822 | 291 |
| 2 | October 1, 2025 19:15 | October 1, 2025 19:45 | 30m | 807 | 404 |
| 3 | June 21, 2025 04:15 | June 22, 2025 21:00 | 1d 16h | 792 | 10K |
| 4 | December 20, 2025 12:45 | December 20, 2025 17:45 | 5h | 685 | 2,741 |
| 5 | May 15, 2025 16:30 | May 16, 2025 08:15 | 15h 45m | 410 | 1,341 |
| 6 | June 17, 2025 14:00 | June 17, 2025 14:15 | 15m | 356 | 89 |
| 7 | March 26, 2025 17:30 | March 26, 2025 18:30 | 1h | 259 | 206 |
| 8 | March 15, 2025 10:30 | March 15, 2025 18:00 | 7h 30m | 206 | 650 |
| 9 | November 25, 2025 18:00 | November 26, 2025 03:45 | 9h 45m | 206 | 724 |
| 10 | August 4, 2025 08:15 | August 4, 2025 13:00 | 4h 45m | 123 | 313 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 11 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 1.82 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2024 | 9 min | 0.34 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county