County annual report · FIPS 27055
2015 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,084 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2284th 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 Houston 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 | October 30, 2015 01:15 | October 30, 2015 03:15 | 2h | 197 | 177 |
| 2 | July 13, 2015 11:45 | July 13, 2015 14:45 | 3h | 162 | 85 |
| 3 | September 3, 2015 00:30 | September 3, 2015 04:45 | 4h 15m | 85 | 340 |
| 4 | December 16, 2015 19:00 | December 16, 2015 21:45 | 2h 45m | 50 | 88 |
| 5 | September 3, 2015 08:45 | September 3, 2015 12:45 | 4h | 32 | 124 |
| 6 | September 21, 2015 23:15 | September 22, 2015 01:30 | 2h 15m | 32 | 68 |
| 7 | December 9, 2015 15:45 | December 9, 2015 17:15 | 1h 30m | 20 | 25 |
| 8 | August 16, 2015 12:15 | August 16, 2015 15:00 | 2h 45m | 17 | 47 |
| 9 | June 24, 2015 13:00 | June 24, 2015 13:30 | 30m | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | August 11, 2015 05:45 | August 11, 2015 07:30 | 1h 45m | 13 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 2 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2015 | 67 min | 0.60 | 67 min | 0.60 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county