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Monthly Outage Summary
July 2026: 52 outages impacting 189 members. The longest outage lasted approximately 5 hours and 30 minutes and affected 1 member. This was due to the member working with an electrician to add solar. Our largest outage for the month was due to a drone contacting our power lines, impacting 45 members. Overall, members had power 99.99% of the time.
*The average restoration time was 106 minutes per customer affected by an outage.
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2026 Outage Summary
| January -41 outages, 105 members, 52 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 2 hours-13 minutes (involving 11 members) | February -24 outages, 25 members, 45 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 2 hours-47 minutes (involving 1 member) |
| March -35 outages, 1,602 members, 42 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 2 hours-48 minutes (involving 1 member) | April -47 outages, 229 members, 80 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 4 hours-9 minutes (involving 1 member) |
| May -56 outages, 221 members, 133 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 6 hours (involving 1 member) | June -78 outages, 565 members, 106 avg. minutes per customer -Longest outage was 6 hours (involving 1 member) |
| July -52 outages, 189 members, 94 avg. minutes per customer Longest outage was 5 hours-30 minutes (involving 1 member) | August |
| September | October |
| November | December |
What’s causing these outage events (Year to Date):
- Planned: 56.23%
- Maintenance: 12.46%
- Weather: 9.61%
- Animals: 8.90%
- Public: 3.56%
- Other: 8.19%
- Equipment: 0.36%
- Power Supply: 0.71%
Most outages affect only one or two members.
These outages are frequently caused by small animals, trees in the line, equipment failure, or motor vehicle/machinery accidents. Larger outages affecting hundreds of members at a time are usually caused by transmission outages, storms, equipment failure to substation equipment, or accidents. Restoration time on weekends and evening outages, when line crews are called out from home, usually takes a little longer to get back on than outages when crews are already out working on the project.
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McLeod Cooperative Power Association.
We will do our best to update this page as we are notified by our line crew in the field.
To report a power outage or emergency situation:
Call McLeod Co-op Power at 1.800.927.5685, anytime 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Check the fuses/breakers in your home or main breaker on the pole, to ensure outage is not caused by equipment or fuse failure on your side of the meter.
- Call your neighbors. Ask if their power is also off and ask if they have reported it yet.
- Call McLeod Cooperative Power to report your outage. Be prepared to give your name, address, and telephone number for the account without power.
Be Prepared – Outages Will Happen!
How prepared are you to be without electricity for an extended period of time? Could your family be self-sufficient if the power was out for a week?
Planning ahead can make a huge difference. You do not have to complete survival training; just some critical supplies, and following some important guidelines.
Critical supplies to have at home:
- At least one telephone that does not require electricity to operate or recharge.
- Bottled water (at least 3 gallons per person).
- Flashlights and extra batteries.
- Canned food and a manual can opener.
- First aid kit, prescription medications, candles, matches, and a portable radio.
- Consider investing in a generator.
- Listen to weather updates for freezing rain or severe blizzard conditions.
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