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2017 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 8,267 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1895th 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 Dodge 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 | April 26, 2017 01:15 | April 26, 2017 02:00 | 45m | 2,562 | 861 |
| 2 | July 19, 2017 21:45 | July 20, 2017 04:45 | 7h | 484 | 1,494 |
| 3 | June 24, 2017 21:00 | June 25, 2017 02:15 | 5h 15m | 201 | 1,042 |
| 4 | May 18, 2017 11:00 | May 18, 2017 13:30 | 2h 30m | 169 | 328 |
| 5 | June 25, 2017 18:30 | June 25, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 103 | 283 |
| 6 | November 12, 2017 15:30 | November 12, 2017 18:00 | 2h 30m | 97 | 243 |
| 7 | June 14, 2017 07:30 | June 15, 2017 15:15 | 1d 7h | 68 | 1,730 |
| 8 | April 27, 2017 14:30 | April 27, 2017 16:45 | 2h 15m | 48 | 108 |
| 9 | June 9, 2017 11:30 | June 9, 2017 13:30 | 2h | 41 | 62 |
| 10 | October 27, 2017 18:15 | October 27, 2017 20:00 | 1h 45m | 41 | 62 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Dodge 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 77 min | 0.57 | 77 min | 0.57 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 | 68 min | 0.75 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 53 min | 0.62 | 53 min | 0.62 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.06 | 81 min | 0.90 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,199 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. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge 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/dodge-county