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2017 Ramsey County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ramsey County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 558K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1581st 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 Ramsey 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 30, 2017 09:45 | June 30, 2017 21:30 | 11h 45m | 19,414 | 32K |
| 2 | June 14, 2017 05:45 | June 16, 2017 10:00 | 2d 4h | 15,265 | 110K |
| 3 | June 10, 2017 11:15 | June 14, 2017 05:00 | 3d 17h | 12,759 | 88K |
| 4 | December 10, 2017 23:45 | December 11, 2017 09:45 | 10h | 7,377 | 14K |
| 5 | April 25, 2017 23:15 | April 26, 2017 01:45 | 2h 30m | 6,484 | 1,623 |
| 6 | July 12, 2017 07:30 | July 14, 2017 06:30 | 1d 23h | 5,957 | 57K |
| 7 | October 27, 2017 18:15 | October 28, 2017 15:45 | 21h 30m | 3,175 | 15K |
| 8 | May 28, 2017 21:45 | May 29, 2017 09:45 | 12h | 3,173 | 3,916 |
| 9 | July 31, 2017 07:30 | August 2, 2017 03:15 | 1d 19h | 3,143 | 12K |
| 10 | July 20, 2017 11:00 | July 21, 2017 20:45 | 1d 9h | 3,037 | 5,588 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 140 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2017 | 87 min | 0.71 | 32 min | 0.44 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 257,190 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. Ramsey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county