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2017 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 379K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1214th 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 Washington 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 12, 2017 07:45 | July 14, 2017 04:00 | 1d 20h | 14,745 | 146K |
| 2 | April 25, 2017 20:30 | April 26, 2017 04:00 | 7h 30m | 13,147 | 3,866 |
| 3 | June 14, 2017 06:15 | June 15, 2017 21:30 | 1d 15h | 6,460 | 47K |
| 4 | April 6, 2017 07:15 | April 6, 2017 17:15 | 10h | 6,272 | 15K |
| 5 | May 21, 2017 09:30 | May 21, 2017 11:15 | 1h 45m | 6,269 | 3,989 |
| 6 | July 25, 2017 01:15 | July 27, 2017 03:45 | 2d 2h | 4,460 | 24K |
| 7 | June 10, 2017 11:30 | June 13, 2017 16:30 | 3d 5h | 4,362 | 33K |
| 8 | July 3, 2017 10:30 | July 3, 2017 22:45 | 12h 15m | 4,020 | 3,577 |
| 9 | July 5, 2017 12:00 | July 6, 2017 10:30 | 22h 30m | 3,541 | 7,941 |
| 10 | August 7, 2017 13:30 | August 8, 2017 00:30 | 11h | 2,304 | 2,521 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 75 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2017 | 56 min | 0.68 | 56 min | 0.68 |
| Connexus Energy | 2017 | 87 min | 0.71 | 32 min | 0.44 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county