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2025 Lincoln County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 5,703 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2332nd 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 Lincoln 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 | November 18, 2025 00:15 | November 18, 2025 02:30 | 2h 15m | 1,409 | 2,862 |
| 2 | May 4, 2025 12:15 | May 4, 2025 13:00 | 45m | 557 | 418 |
| 3 | August 16, 2025 09:45 | August 16, 2025 12:30 | 2h 45m | 387 | 458 |
| 4 | February 23, 2025 17:45 | February 23, 2025 21:45 | 4h | 196 | 717 |
| 5 | July 15, 2025 09:30 | July 15, 2025 09:45 | 15m | 155 | 39 |
| 6 | August 28, 2025 15:15 | August 28, 2025 19:30 | 4h 15m | 32 | 116 |
| 7 | March 30, 2025 10:00 | March 30, 2025 18:00 | 8h | 25 | 114 |
| 8 | April 12, 2025 17:00 | April 12, 2025 20:45 | 3h 45m | 25 | 84 |
| 9 | March 4, 2025 22:15 | March 5, 2025 02:15 | 4h | 23 | 87 |
| 10 | March 13, 2025 15:15 | March 13, 2025 17:30 | 2h 15m | 23 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 5 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2024 | 46 min | 0.92 | 46 min | 0.92 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 |
| City of Tyler - (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 ÷ 2,548 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. Lincoln County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county