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2015 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2054th 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 Blue Earth 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 | May 21, 2015 19:15 | May 21, 2015 20:00 | 45m | 1,742 | 871 |
| 2 | June 6, 2015 06:15 | June 6, 2015 13:00 | 6h 45m | 1,700 | 5,157 |
| 3 | June 22, 2015 12:15 | June 23, 2015 21:45 | 1d 9h | 1,279 | 3,217 |
| 4 | September 5, 2015 11:15 | September 5, 2015 18:45 | 7h 30m | 552 | 2,358 |
| 5 | May 27, 2015 09:45 | May 27, 2015 14:15 | 4h 30m | 273 | 1,045 |
| 6 | July 18, 2015 05:30 | July 18, 2015 06:30 | 1h | 217 | 158 |
| 7 | September 27, 2015 22:15 | September 28, 2015 08:30 | 10h 15m | 191 | 250 |
| 8 | November 17, 2015 08:00 | November 17, 2015 12:30 | 4h 30m | 190 | 855 |
| 9 | September 19, 2015 14:45 | September 19, 2015 16:00 | 1h 15m | 159 | 159 |
| 10 | October 27, 2015 22:30 | October 28, 2015 01:30 | 3h | 131 | 392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 34 min | 0.56 | 34 min | 0.56 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county