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2017 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2094th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 27, 2017 11:45 | October 27, 2017 17:15 | 5h 30m | 1,485 | 2,166 |
| 2 | September 13, 2017 13:30 | September 13, 2017 14:15 | 45m | 1,403 | 1,052 |
| 3 | June 11, 2017 13:15 | June 12, 2017 17:30 | 1d 4h | 921 | 4,808 |
| 4 | September 25, 2017 04:15 | September 25, 2017 09:00 | 4h 45m | 643 | 2,882 |
| 5 | June 20, 2017 15:15 | June 20, 2017 17:30 | 2h 15m | 329 | 335 |
| 6 | June 13, 2017 17:30 | June 13, 2017 20:15 | 2h 45m | 307 | 771 |
| 7 | December 2, 2017 17:30 | December 2, 2017 22:30 | 5h | 164 | 762 |
| 8 | September 24, 2017 01:00 | September 24, 2017 06:45 | 5h 45m | 117 | 581 |
| 9 | July 16, 2017 12:30 | July 16, 2017 15:15 | 2h 45m | 115 | 257 |
| 10 | October 6, 2017 13:30 | October 6, 2017 17:00 | 3h 30m | 96 | 247 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| East Central Energy | 2017 | 56 min | 0.68 | 56 min | 0.68 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/benton-county