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2017 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 786 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2548th 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 Houston 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 | June 12, 2017 21:30 | June 13, 2017 01:30 | 4h | 59 | 122 |
| 2 | July 13, 2017 18:00 | July 13, 2017 20:45 | 2h 45m | 21 | 58 |
| 3 | June 7, 2017 12:45 | June 7, 2017 16:45 | 4h | 20 | 66 |
| 4 | June 8, 2017 15:00 | June 8, 2017 17:15 | 2h 15m | 19 | 43 |
| 5 | July 7, 2017 14:45 | July 7, 2017 20:00 | 5h 15m | 18 | 95 |
| 6 | June 21, 2017 15:15 | June 21, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 15 | 30 |
| 7 | June 21, 2017 18:30 | June 21, 2017 20:30 | 2h | 15 | 30 |
| 8 | June 22, 2017 15:00 | June 22, 2017 17:00 | 2h | 15 | 30 |
| 9 | June 19, 2017 15:30 | June 19, 2017 22:15 | 6h 45m | 13 | 81 |
| 10 | July 18, 2017 20:00 | July 18, 2017 21:45 | 1h 45m | 12 | 21 |
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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county