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2025 Cottonwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cottonwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 34 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2981st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cottonwood County, 2025
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 17, 2025 21:30 | November 17, 2025 22:00 | 30m | 12 | 6 |
| 2 | August 13, 2025 13:45 | August 13, 2025 15:45 | 2h | 9 | 18 |
| 3 | March 30, 2025 12:45 | March 30, 2025 13:45 | 1h | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | April 9, 2025 19:00 | April 9, 2025 19:45 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | April 28, 2025 20:15 | April 28, 2025 21:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | June 19, 2025 22:15 | June 19, 2025 23:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 0 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 Cottonwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 77 min | 0.95 | 77 min | 0.95 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2024 | 72 min | 0.95 | 70 min | 0.93 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Mountain Lake - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Westbrook | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Windom | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,353 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. Cottonwood County has data for 2015, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cottonwood 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/cottonwood-county