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2015 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 5,464 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1965th 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 Waseca 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 | September 23, 2015 05:15 | September 23, 2015 06:15 | 1h | 797 | 797 |
| 2 | September 4, 2015 19:30 | September 4, 2015 21:00 | 1h 30m | 259 | 196 |
| 3 | August 4, 2015 21:45 | August 4, 2015 22:15 | 30m | 258 | 129 |
| 4 | July 18, 2015 00:45 | July 18, 2015 13:15 | 12h 30m | 116 | 244 |
| 5 | September 15, 2015 22:15 | September 15, 2015 23:15 | 1h | 94 | 48 |
| 6 | May 26, 2015 22:30 | May 27, 2015 00:15 | 1h 45m | 71 | 107 |
| 7 | June 11, 2015 18:30 | June 11, 2015 22:00 | 3h 30m | 53 | 105 |
| 8 | August 7, 2015 02:15 | August 7, 2015 06:00 | 3h 45m | 45 | 113 |
| 9 | August 11, 2015 18:30 | August 11, 2015 19:00 | 30m | 44 | 22 |
| 10 | October 7, 2015 17:45 | October 7, 2015 19:30 | 1h 45m | 41 | 72 |
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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2015 | 22 min | 0.34 | 22 min | 0.34 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county