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2017 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 23 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2713th 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 Faribault 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 | March 30, 2017 13:00 | March 30, 2017 15:00 | 2h | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | September 26, 2017 12:15 | September 26, 2017 14:45 | 2h 30m | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | May 9, 2017 14:30 | May 9, 2017 14:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | May 15, 2017 13:45 | May 15, 2017 16:45 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | May 17, 2017 03:15 | May 17, 2017 07:15 | 4h | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | June 29, 2017 15:00 | June 29, 2017 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | November 10, 2017 17:45 | November 10, 2017 19:30 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.58 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 |
| 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 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2017 | 6 min | 0.39 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county