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2017 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 130 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2699th 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 Freeborn 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 | May 15, 2017 21:45 | May 16, 2017 00:00 | 2h 15m | 12 | 16 |
| 2 | August 16, 2017 23:00 | August 17, 2017 04:30 | 5h 30m | 8 | 42 |
| 3 | June 10, 2017 17:15 | June 10, 2017 21:00 | 3h 45m | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | July 10, 2017 04:00 | July 10, 2017 16:30 | 12h 30m | 4 | 23 |
| 5 | May 17, 2017 21:15 | May 17, 2017 22:15 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 18:30 | July 19, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | April 3, 2017 06:00 | April 3, 2017 06:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | April 3, 2017 13:30 | April 3, 2017 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | May 9, 2017 13:30 | May 9, 2017 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | May 18, 2017 22:00 | May 19, 2017 01:00 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county