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2015 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,499 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2210th 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 Faribault 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 | January 29, 2015 01:00 | January 29, 2015 05:30 | 4h 30m | 141 | 552 |
| 2 | April 7, 2015 20:30 | April 8, 2015 00:15 | 3h 45m | 93 | 68 |
| 3 | June 6, 2015 01:15 | June 6, 2015 02:30 | 1h 15m | 54 | 68 |
| 4 | June 27, 2015 03:30 | June 27, 2015 05:00 | 1h 30m | 41 | 58 |
| 5 | June 22, 2015 12:15 | June 23, 2015 15:45 | 1d 3h | 40 | 465 |
| 6 | January 4, 2015 13:15 | January 4, 2015 15:45 | 2h 30m | 22 | 40 |
| 7 | July 22, 2015 14:30 | July 22, 2015 22:15 | 7h 45m | 22 | 110 |
| 8 | February 6, 2015 16:00 | February 6, 2015 17:30 | 1h 30m | 18 | 27 |
| 9 | June 27, 2015 13:00 | June 27, 2015 14:15 | 1h 15m | 17 | 21 |
| 10 | February 18, 2015 18:45 | February 18, 2015 20:00 | 1h 15m | 14 | 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2015 | 49 min | 0.71 | 49 min | 0.71 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 34 min | 0.56 | 34 min | 0.56 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 0.61 | 51 min | 0.45 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county