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2015 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,356 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2303rd 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 Steele 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 14, 2015 19:30 | May 14, 2015 22:15 | 2h 45m | 651 | 1,283 |
| 2 | July 6, 2015 13:30 | July 6, 2015 15:45 | 2h 15m | 370 | 204 |
| 3 | August 4, 2015 21:45 | August 4, 2015 22:15 | 30m | 361 | 181 |
| 4 | September 4, 2015 19:30 | September 4, 2015 21:30 | 2h | 360 | 273 |
| 5 | May 16, 2015 15:45 | May 16, 2015 18:30 | 2h 45m | 21 | 53 |
| 6 | September 4, 2015 11:00 | September 4, 2015 13:00 | 2h | 19 | 34 |
| 7 | September 27, 2015 20:00 | September 28, 2015 00:30 | 4h 30m | 14 | 56 |
| 8 | October 10, 2015 12:45 | October 10, 2015 14:30 | 1h 45m | 14 | 25 |
| 9 | November 3, 2015 22:45 | November 3, 2015 23:00 | 15m | 13 | 3 |
| 10 | March 30, 2015 18:30 | March 30, 2015 19:30 | 1h | 12 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 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 Steele 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 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 0.61 | 51 min | 0.45 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2015 | 7 min | 0.10 | 7 min | 0.10 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county