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2017 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 5,143 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2164th 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 Sibley 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 | November 27, 2017 01:00 | November 27, 2017 15:30 | 14h 30m | 226 | 1,439 |
| 2 | August 21, 2017 19:15 | August 21, 2017 20:45 | 1h 30m | 186 | 279 |
| 3 | October 2, 2017 21:00 | October 3, 2017 03:30 | 6h 30m | 105 | 295 |
| 4 | August 29, 2017 01:00 | August 29, 2017 03:30 | 2h 30m | 92 | 212 |
| 5 | March 8, 2017 19:30 | March 8, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 83 | 22 |
| 6 | November 6, 2017 12:15 | November 6, 2017 17:45 | 5h 30m | 83 | 322 |
| 7 | December 5, 2017 03:45 | December 5, 2017 18:15 | 14h 30m | 83 | 458 |
| 8 | June 11, 2017 10:30 | June 12, 2017 03:15 | 16h 45m | 82 | 755 |
| 9 | September 15, 2017 18:00 | September 15, 2017 19:30 | 1h 30m | 82 | 103 |
| 10 | October 3, 2017 13:45 | October 3, 2017 21:00 | 7h 15m | 37 | 107 |
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 Sibley 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2017 | 68 min | 0.62 | 68 min | 0.62 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county