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2025 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 1359th 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 Pipestone 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 17, 2025 21:15 | November 17, 2025 22:45 | 1h 30m | 4,235 | 2,988 |
| 2 | March 30, 2025 09:15 | March 30, 2025 21:00 | 11h 45m | 4,044 | 2,402 |
| 3 | September 14, 2025 21:45 | September 15, 2025 09:45 | 12h | 1,636 | 4,990 |
| 4 | August 15, 2025 19:15 | August 15, 2025 21:30 | 2h 15m | 1,354 | 810 |
| 5 | October 3, 2025 03:15 | October 3, 2025 03:30 | 15m | 972 | 243 |
| 6 | May 19, 2025 16:15 | May 20, 2025 01:45 | 9h 30m | 481 | 1,060 |
| 7 | April 28, 2025 13:45 | April 28, 2025 15:15 | 1h 30m | 478 | 567 |
| 8 | March 15, 2025 06:00 | March 15, 2025 21:00 | 15h | 472 | 6,017 |
| 9 | April 12, 2025 17:00 | April 12, 2025 20:45 | 3h 45m | 470 | 1,641 |
| 10 | December 15, 2025 02:30 | December 15, 2025 17:15 | 14h 45m | 296 | 457 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pipestone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.67 | 73 min | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county