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2025 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 816th 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 Pope 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 20, 2025 07:30 | June 20, 2025 19:45 | 12h 15m | 1,792 | 6,226 |
| 2 | November 25, 2025 20:15 | November 26, 2025 11:45 | 15h 30m | 1,756 | 7,217 |
| 3 | July 27, 2025 22:45 | July 29, 2025 09:45 | 1d 11h | 1,273 | 22K |
| 4 | June 2, 2025 19:15 | June 3, 2025 08:30 | 13h 15m | 1,087 | 3,785 |
| 5 | September 12, 2025 16:00 | September 12, 2025 16:15 | 15m | 958 | 240 |
| 6 | September 13, 2025 00:15 | September 13, 2025 00:30 | 15m | 958 | 240 |
| 7 | September 14, 2025 08:45 | September 14, 2025 09:15 | 30m | 958 | 479 |
| 8 | June 1, 2025 07:45 | June 1, 2025 11:15 | 3h 30m | 956 | 3,346 |
| 9 | May 3, 2025 18:30 | May 3, 2025 22:45 | 4h 15m | 757 | 2,269 |
| 10 | August 10, 2025 06:30 | August 10, 2025 12:45 | 6h 15m | 756 | 4,555 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 22 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2024 | 68 min | 0.52 | 52 min | 0.46 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2024 | 68 min | 1.00 | 68 min | 0.99 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.82 | 57 min | 0.61 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county