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2017 Olmsted County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Olmsted County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 3,031 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2644th 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 Olmsted 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 8, 2017 18:15 | May 8, 2017 21:00 | 2h 45m | 961 | 1,092 |
| 2 | June 28, 2017 01:45 | June 28, 2017 07:45 | 6h | 343 | 151 |
| 3 | June 24, 2017 21:00 | June 25, 2017 02:45 | 5h 45m | 151 | 793 |
| 4 | September 23, 2017 22:00 | September 24, 2017 02:45 | 4h 45m | 56 | 252 |
| 5 | May 21, 2017 16:45 | May 22, 2017 00:00 | 7h 15m | 30 | 210 |
| 6 | August 29, 2017 18:00 | August 30, 2017 00:30 | 6h 30m | 28 | 137 |
| 7 | November 8, 2017 14:45 | November 8, 2017 20:45 | 6h | 25 | 150 |
| 8 | June 10, 2017 18:15 | June 10, 2017 23:15 | 5h | 12 | 49 |
| 9 | June 12, 2017 21:15 | June 13, 2017 02:00 | 4h 45m | 12 | 54 |
| 10 | April 1, 2017 13:00 | April 1, 2017 15:00 | 2h | 7 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Olmsted 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 |
| 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 |
| Rochester Public Utilities | 2017 | 73 min | 0.95 | 34 min | 0.56 |
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 ÷ 76,519 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. Olmsted County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Olmsted 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/olmsted-county