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2017 Brown County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Brown County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,385 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2557th 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 Brown County, 2017
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 10, 2017 04:30 | July 10, 2017 20:00 | 15h 30m | 108 | 1,051 |
| 2 | August 17, 2017 05:30 | August 17, 2017 08:15 | 2h 45m | 108 | 272 |
| 3 | August 28, 2017 00:15 | August 28, 2017 01:45 | 1h 30m | 39 | 49 |
| 4 | May 12, 2017 16:00 | May 12, 2017 20:15 | 4h 15m | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | May 15, 2017 13:15 | May 15, 2017 15:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | September 15, 2017 16:15 | September 15, 2017 17:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | September 19, 2017 20:15 | September 20, 2017 00:30 | 4h 15m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 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 Brown 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 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Ulm Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sleepy Eye Public Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springfield Public Utils Comm - (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 ÷ 12,921 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county