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2017 Jackson County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jackson County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 3,012 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2251st 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 Jackson 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 | February 24, 2017 02:00 | February 24, 2017 10:30 | 8h 30m | 157 | 1,256 |
| 2 | January 26, 2017 04:30 | January 26, 2017 06:30 | 2h | 156 | 312 |
| 3 | January 26, 2017 17:00 | January 26, 2017 17:15 | 15m | 156 | 39 |
| 4 | February 7, 2017 09:00 | February 7, 2017 11:30 | 2h 30m | 156 | 351 |
| 5 | January 7, 2017 18:45 | January 7, 2017 20:45 | 2h | 144 | 252 |
| 6 | March 1, 2017 02:15 | March 1, 2017 03:30 | 1h 15m | 73 | 91 |
| 7 | January 14, 2017 18:45 | January 14, 2017 20:00 | 1h 15m | 71 | 71 |
| 8 | March 7, 2017 03:45 | March 7, 2017 22:15 | 18h 30m | 58 | 522 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 14:30 | March 2, 2017 15:30 | 1h | 57 | 57 |
| 10 | March 22, 2017 07:15 | March 22, 2017 08:00 | 45m | 18 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.18 | 74 min | 0.78 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| City of Alpha - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Jackson - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lakefield - (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 ÷ 5,169 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county