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2015 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2081st 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 Stearns 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 | May 17, 2015 16:15 | May 17, 2015 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,746 | 2,560 |
| 2 | May 19, 2015 15:00 | May 19, 2015 18:45 | 3h 45m | 1,714 | 468 |
| 3 | December 18, 2015 11:15 | December 18, 2015 12:00 | 45m | 1,028 | 771 |
| 4 | June 9, 2015 23:30 | June 10, 2015 22:45 | 23h 15m | 757 | 8,342 |
| 5 | July 15, 2015 02:00 | July 15, 2015 02:30 | 30m | 629 | 315 |
| 6 | July 13, 2015 02:00 | July 13, 2015 04:45 | 2h 45m | 605 | 1,097 |
| 7 | August 4, 2015 17:15 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 30m | 557 | 279 |
| 8 | July 13, 2015 20:00 | July 14, 2015 03:00 | 7h | 515 | 804 |
| 9 | September 5, 2015 09:30 | September 5, 2015 18:45 | 9h 15m | 490 | 1,512 |
| 10 | May 17, 2015 01:15 | May 17, 2015 11:30 | 10h 15m | 459 | 2,201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.51 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2015 | 57 min | 0.57 | 44 min | 0.52 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2015 | 67 min | 0.85 | 67 min | 0.85 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2015 | 86 min | 0.92 | 86 min | 0.92 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2015 | 73 min | 0.82 | 73 min | 0.82 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2015 | 1 min | 0.02 | 1 min | 0.02 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county