County annual report · FIPS 27009
2015 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1490th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 12, 2015 22:30 | July 13, 2015 17:45 | 19h 15m | 3,336 | 8,788 |
| 2 | July 6, 2015 04:45 | July 6, 2015 11:15 | 6h 30m | 3,141 | 9,644 |
| 3 | July 14, 2015 00:45 | July 14, 2015 03:00 | 2h 15m | 1,969 | 2,954 |
| 4 | May 10, 2015 01:00 | May 10, 2015 04:45 | 3h 45m | 779 | 1,810 |
| 5 | June 15, 2015 13:30 | June 15, 2015 15:15 | 1h 45m | 546 | 278 |
| 6 | September 17, 2015 01:15 | September 17, 2015 06:15 | 5h | 420 | 1,082 |
| 7 | December 18, 2015 11:15 | December 18, 2015 12:00 | 45m | 330 | 248 |
| 8 | June 8, 2015 03:00 | June 8, 2015 07:45 | 4h 45m | 229 | 974 |
| 9 | September 5, 2015 09:45 | September 5, 2015 19:00 | 9h 15m | 195 | 437 |
| 10 | May 10, 2015 19:30 | May 11, 2015 05:00 | 9h 30m | 98 | 322 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| East Central Energy | 2015 | 84 min | 1.00 | 75 min | 0.96 |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/minnesota/benton-county