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2025 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 8,097 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 1906th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 | March 15, 2025 08:15 | March 15, 2025 08:45 | 30m | 1,056 | 296 |
| 2 | July 21, 2025 22:45 | July 22, 2025 01:15 | 2h 30m | 696 | 1,566 |
| 3 | July 29, 2025 01:30 | July 29, 2025 20:45 | 19h 15m | 498 | 700 |
| 4 | August 6, 2025 05:45 | August 6, 2025 08:45 | 3h | 497 | 1,315 |
| 5 | January 13, 2025 16:00 | January 13, 2025 16:15 | 15m | 479 | 120 |
| 6 | December 12, 2025 07:30 | December 12, 2025 08:45 | 1h 15m | 334 | 377 |
| 7 | May 19, 2025 20:00 | May 19, 2025 23:45 | 3h 45m | 220 | 553 |
| 8 | April 25, 2025 05:45 | April 25, 2025 07:30 | 1h 45m | 213 | 373 |
| 9 | May 5, 2025 09:45 | May 5, 2025 11:30 | 1h 45m | 213 | 60 |
| 10 | June 29, 2025 01:45 | June 29, 2025 02:30 | 45m | 213 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 11 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county