County annual report · FIPS 27063
2015 Jackson County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Jackson County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,215 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2229th 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 Jackson County, 2015
The 2 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 11:15 | June 22, 2015 20:00 | 8h 45m | 578 | 1,063 |
| 2 | January 8, 2015 19:30 | January 8, 2015 20:45 | 1h 15m | 152 | 153 |
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 Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alpha - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Jackson - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lakefield - (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 ÷ 5,169 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county