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2017 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1873rd 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 Waseca 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 21, 2017 13:45 | June 21, 2017 16:30 | 2h 45m | 660 | 1,369 |
| 2 | April 14, 2017 13:45 | April 14, 2017 21:15 | 7h 30m | 650 | 2,669 |
| 3 | June 16, 2017 22:15 | June 17, 2017 02:30 | 4h 15m | 521 | 1,415 |
| 4 | December 25, 2017 23:15 | December 26, 2017 05:15 | 6h | 244 | 575 |
| 5 | May 17, 2017 04:45 | May 17, 2017 10:45 | 6h | 215 | 411 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 21:15 | July 20, 2017 06:45 | 9h 30m | 188 | 920 |
| 7 | September 19, 2017 06:45 | September 19, 2017 10:15 | 3h 30m | 176 | 595 |
| 8 | July 10, 2017 03:00 | July 10, 2017 18:45 | 15h 45m | 155 | 515 |
| 9 | June 3, 2017 07:30 | June 3, 2017 08:45 | 1h 15m | 124 | 155 |
| 10 | June 15, 2017 15:15 | June 15, 2017 16:45 | 1h 30m | 69 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2017 | 26 min | 0.47 | - | - |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county