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2017 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 162K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1611th 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 Stearns 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 11, 2017 11:00 | June 13, 2017 08:00 | 1d 21h | 11,606 | 98K |
| 2 | October 6, 2017 13:15 | October 6, 2017 16:15 | 3h | 4,946 | 2,476 |
| 3 | October 21, 2017 14:15 | October 21, 2017 19:15 | 5h | 3,018 | 1,034 |
| 4 | June 10, 2017 12:45 | June 11, 2017 08:30 | 19h 45m | 2,911 | 6,471 |
| 5 | May 9, 2017 21:45 | May 10, 2017 06:15 | 8h 30m | 2,688 | 5,395 |
| 6 | April 26, 2017 01:15 | April 26, 2017 01:30 | 15m | 2,128 | 532 |
| 7 | September 4, 2017 20:30 | September 5, 2017 18:15 | 21h 45m | 2,035 | 5,955 |
| 8 | September 22, 2017 11:30 | September 22, 2017 15:00 | 3h 30m | 1,948 | 2,567 |
| 9 | June 20, 2017 15:15 | June 20, 2017 17:30 | 2h 15m | 1,025 | 1,071 |
| 10 | December 15, 2017 20:30 | December 16, 2017 10:15 | 13h 45m | 909 | 4,978 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 29 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.03 | 80 min | 0.84 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 82 min | 0.58 | 36 min | 0.45 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.24 | 57 min | 1.64 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 0.91 | 78 min | 0.77 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2017 | 9.2 hrs | 1.99 | 56 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2017 | 0 min | 0.01 | 0 min | 0.01 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county