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2015 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1819th 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 Rice 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 | November 28, 2015 16:15 | November 28, 2015 18:30 | 2h 15m | 2,556 | 5,232 |
| 2 | October 10, 2015 12:30 | October 10, 2015 14:30 | 2h | 1,170 | 2,048 |
| 3 | June 22, 2015 11:30 | June 23, 2015 05:00 | 17h 30m | 1,160 | 1,026 |
| 4 | August 13, 2015 16:00 | August 13, 2015 18:30 | 2h 30m | 1,144 | 2,831 |
| 5 | June 4, 2015 16:00 | June 4, 2015 16:30 | 30m | 829 | 325 |
| 6 | April 1, 2015 17:00 | April 1, 2015 19:30 | 2h 30m | 471 | 354 |
| 7 | June 4, 2015 18:00 | June 4, 2015 18:30 | 30m | 469 | 235 |
| 8 | July 13, 2015 23:30 | July 14, 2015 00:15 | 45m | 459 | 344 |
| 9 | May 18, 2015 01:00 | May 18, 2015 01:30 | 30m | 385 | 144 |
| 10 | August 22, 2015 18:15 | August 23, 2015 06:30 | 12h 15m | 288 | 1,161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Rice 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 34 min | 0.56 | 34 min | 0.56 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2015 | 2.0 hrs | 0.72 | 44 min | 0.43 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2015 | 28 min | 0.39 | 18 min | 0.29 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county