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2015 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 27.8 hours, a total of 192K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 81st 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 Sibley 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 | March 29, 2015 15:00 | March 31, 2015 17:45 | 2d 2h | 3,297 | 2,269 |
| 2 | September 8, 2015 19:30 | September 9, 2015 00:15 | 4h 45m | 3,113 | 8,047 |
| 3 | June 16, 2015 19:30 | June 23, 2015 18:45 | 6d 23h | 2,581 | 13K |
| 4 | August 21, 2015 19:45 | August 25, 2015 00:15 | 3d 4h | 2,580 | 6,063 |
| 5 | April 14, 2015 14:00 | April 14, 2015 18:30 | 4h 30m | 2,533 | 9,500 |
| 6 | September 1, 2015 10:15 | September 1, 2015 14:30 | 4h 15m | 1,960 | 1,963 |
| 7 | September 1, 2015 02:30 | September 1, 2015 07:15 | 4h 45m | 1,514 | 5,064 |
| 8 | January 15, 2015 15:00 | January 15, 2015 17:00 | 2h | 1,448 | 808 |
| 9 | July 13, 2015 00:00 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 6d 1h | 1,211 | 63K |
| 10 | May 10, 2015 23:45 | May 11, 2015 01:15 | 1h 30m | 1,094 | 1,641 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 61 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Sibley 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2015 | 32 min | 0.04 | 32 min | 0.04 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county