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2017 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2006th 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 Scott 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 | July 15, 2017 06:45 | July 15, 2017 09:00 | 2h 15m | 3,783 | 7,670 |
| 2 | September 28, 2017 13:45 | September 28, 2017 15:30 | 1h 45m | 3,227 | 4,025 |
| 3 | June 3, 2017 13:00 | June 4, 2017 00:45 | 11h 45m | 2,922 | 7,730 |
| 4 | May 14, 2017 18:15 | May 14, 2017 21:00 | 2h 45m | 2,904 | 3,643 |
| 5 | May 13, 2017 22:30 | May 13, 2017 23:45 | 1h 15m | 2,900 | 915 |
| 6 | June 13, 2017 20:45 | June 14, 2017 18:30 | 21h 45m | 2,097 | 1,367 |
| 7 | July 24, 2017 15:00 | July 25, 2017 01:15 | 10h 15m | 2,033 | 519 |
| 8 | May 24, 2017 12:45 | May 24, 2017 19:15 | 6h 30m | 1,404 | 358 |
| 9 | June 10, 2017 13:45 | June 11, 2017 04:00 | 14h 15m | 1,202 | 1,517 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 03:00 | December 5, 2017 08:00 | 5h | 1,037 | 2,336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2017 | 21 min | 0.29 | 17 min | 0.25 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2017 | 30 min | 0.49 | 24 min | 0.48 |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county