County annual report · FIPS 27047
2015 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1716th 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 Freeborn 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 4, 2015 00:00 | May 4, 2015 05:00 | 5h | 4,278 | 13K |
| 2 | March 16, 2015 15:30 | March 16, 2015 16:15 | 45m | 2,568 | 1,926 |
| 3 | April 6, 2015 04:45 | April 6, 2015 05:00 | 15m | 419 | 105 |
| 4 | September 23, 2015 05:15 | September 23, 2015 06:15 | 1h | 284 | 284 |
| 5 | June 27, 2015 01:15 | June 27, 2015 03:30 | 2h 15m | 246 | 488 |
| 6 | July 15, 2015 14:45 | July 15, 2015 18:15 | 3h 30m | 143 | 394 |
| 7 | May 31, 2015 19:15 | May 31, 2015 20:45 | 1h 30m | 73 | 110 |
| 8 | May 2, 2015 13:30 | May 2, 2015 15:15 | 1h 45m | 72 | 113 |
| 9 | July 15, 2015 00:00 | July 15, 2015 00:45 | 45m | 68 | 51 |
| 10 | July 21, 2015 22:15 | July 21, 2015 23:30 | 1h 15m | 62 | 77 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county