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2017 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1926th 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 Rice 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 18:45 | June 14, 2017 02:15 | 1d 7h | 2,611 | 10K |
| 2 | March 30, 2017 15:15 | March 30, 2017 16:15 | 1h | 2,390 | 1,535 |
| 3 | November 2, 2017 19:00 | November 2, 2017 22:00 | 3h | 2,322 | 1,503 |
| 4 | April 15, 2017 14:30 | April 15, 2017 16:30 | 2h | 1,460 | 2,190 |
| 5 | November 23, 2017 07:45 | November 23, 2017 08:00 | 15m | 1,265 | 316 |
| 6 | November 26, 2017 22:00 | November 27, 2017 01:00 | 3h | 1,174 | 2,325 |
| 7 | June 10, 2017 15:30 | June 10, 2017 20:45 | 5h 15m | 540 | 1,940 |
| 8 | June 11, 2017 15:30 | June 11, 2017 23:00 | 7h 30m | 390 | 1,122 |
| 9 | September 18, 2017 17:30 | September 18, 2017 18:45 | 1h 15m | 367 | 415 |
| 10 | June 14, 2017 07:00 | June 15, 2017 15:15 | 1d 8h | 363 | 3,252 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 19 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rice 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2017 | 75 min | 1.53 | 75 min | 1.53 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 77 min | 0.57 | 77 min | 0.57 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 53 min | 0.62 | 53 min | 0.62 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2017 | 21 min | 0.29 | 17 min | 0.25 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county