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2015 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 6,077 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1521st 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 Watonwan 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 | June 22, 2015 12:15 | June 23, 2015 14:45 | 1d 2h | 462 | 2,884 |
| 2 | February 24, 2015 09:00 | February 24, 2015 12:15 | 3h 15m | 241 | 509 |
| 3 | March 29, 2015 10:00 | March 29, 2015 12:15 | 2h 15m | 215 | 380 |
| 4 | January 5, 2015 03:00 | January 5, 2015 14:30 | 11h 30m | 172 | 1,432 |
| 5 | January 24, 2015 14:30 | January 24, 2015 19:30 | 5h | 164 | 820 |
| 6 | July 6, 2015 17:30 | July 6, 2015 18:45 | 1h 15m | 10 | 13 |
| 7 | May 17, 2015 23:15 | May 18, 2015 00:45 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
| 8 | May 21, 2015 14:00 | May 21, 2015 14:30 | 30m | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | January 13, 2015 19:30 | January 13, 2015 20:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | January 13, 2015 23:00 | January 14, 2015 02:30 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county