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2015 Brown County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Brown County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,191 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2338th 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 Brown County, 2015
The 3 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 22, 2015 13:15 | June 23, 2015 11:45 | 22h 30m | 315 | 1,184 |
| 2 | January 19, 2015 20:15 | January 19, 2015 20:30 | 15m | 12 | 3 |
| 3 | January 21, 2015 19:15 | January 21, 2015 19:45 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Brown 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Ulm Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sleepy Eye Public Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springfield Public Utils Comm - (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 ÷ 12,921 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county