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2017 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2170th 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 Blue Earth 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 4, 2017 19:15 | October 4, 2017 20:30 | 1h 15m | 2,212 | 556 |
| 2 | November 27, 2017 16:00 | November 27, 2017 19:15 | 3h 15m | 1,754 | 3,465 |
| 3 | November 9, 2017 21:15 | November 10, 2017 05:30 | 8h 15m | 1,753 | 1,839 |
| 4 | September 4, 2017 22:30 | September 5, 2017 13:45 | 15h 15m | 1,605 | 7,109 |
| 5 | November 21, 2017 13:45 | November 21, 2017 20:30 | 6h 45m | 493 | 295 |
| 6 | October 25, 2017 15:00 | October 25, 2017 17:45 | 2h 45m | 481 | 504 |
| 7 | August 6, 2017 14:30 | August 7, 2017 01:45 | 11h 15m | 365 | 1,511 |
| 8 | July 18, 2017 12:45 | July 18, 2017 13:30 | 45m | 357 | 268 |
| 9 | July 19, 2017 20:00 | July 20, 2017 02:30 | 6h 30m | 342 | 488 |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 11:45 | August 19, 2017 14:45 | 3h | 311 | 716 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2017 | 75 min | 1.53 | 75 min | 1.53 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 77 min | 0.57 | 77 min | 0.57 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county