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2015 Mower County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Mower County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,919 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2282nd 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 Mower 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 | February 6, 2015 18:45 | February 6, 2015 21:45 | 3h | 776 | 2,134 |
| 2 | May 9, 2015 19:45 | May 9, 2015 23:00 | 3h 15m | 71 | 213 |
| 3 | March 8, 2015 03:30 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 2h 30m | 46 | 70 |
| 4 | March 8, 2015 07:00 | March 8, 2015 19:15 | 12h 15m | 24 | 282 |
| 5 | July 8, 2015 17:15 | July 8, 2015 18:30 | 1h 15m | 16 | 12 |
| 6 | April 1, 2015 16:45 | April 1, 2015 18:15 | 1h 30m | 15 | 23 |
| 7 | April 1, 2015 19:15 | April 1, 2015 23:00 | 3h 45m | 15 | 56 |
| 8 | February 24, 2015 18:30 | February 24, 2015 21:45 | 3h 15m | 12 | 39 |
| 9 | February 25, 2015 18:30 | February 25, 2015 20:15 | 1h 45m | 10 | 18 |
| 10 | July 24, 2015 14:45 | July 24, 2015 20:00 | 5h 15m | 7 | 22 |
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 Mower 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2015 | 67 min | 0.60 | 67 min | 0.60 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 0.61 | 51 min | 0.45 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2015 | 80 min | 0.73 | 51 min | 0.52 |
| City of Austin - (MN) | 2015 | 10 min | 0.12 | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,846 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. Mower County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mower 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/mower-county