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2017 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 4,807 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2429th 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 Steele 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 | May 17, 2017 04:45 | May 17, 2017 15:45 | 11h | 700 | 1,933 |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 22:15 | June 17, 2017 03:45 | 5h 30m | 304 | 838 |
| 3 | April 14, 2017 13:45 | April 14, 2017 18:15 | 4h 30m | 303 | 1,364 |
| 4 | October 27, 2017 23:15 | October 28, 2017 02:45 | 3h 30m | 50 | 151 |
| 5 | May 8, 2017 17:30 | May 8, 2017 19:15 | 1h 45m | 45 | 68 |
| 6 | August 21, 2017 11:30 | August 21, 2017 13:30 | 2h | 45 | 90 |
| 7 | April 18, 2017 17:00 | April 18, 2017 17:45 | 45m | 37 | 28 |
| 8 | May 16, 2017 04:00 | May 16, 2017 08:15 | 4h 15m | 36 | 144 |
| 9 | November 26, 2017 22:30 | November 27, 2017 00:30 | 2h | 14 | 25 |
| 10 | July 9, 2017 09:00 | July 9, 2017 19:00 | 10h | 5 | 50 |
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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 77 min | 0.57 | 77 min | 0.57 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 | 68 min | 0.75 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2017 | 45 min | 1.48 | 19 min | 1.22 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county