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2018 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2333rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blue Earth County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 5, 2018 22:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 2h 30m | 2,637 | 4,575 |
| 2 | September 20, 2018 23:30 | September 22, 2018 04:15 | 1d 4h | 2,158 | 7,099 |
| 3 | May 29, 2018 22:30 | May 30, 2018 00:30 | 2h | 1,018 | 2,010 |
| 4 | June 5, 2018 23:45 | June 6, 2018 00:15 | 30m | 1,010 | 253 |
| 5 | April 13, 2018 16:00 | April 13, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 881 | 558 |
| 6 | November 25, 2018 22:00 | November 26, 2018 00:30 | 2h 30m | 742 | 742 |
| 7 | July 2, 2018 13:15 | July 2, 2018 16:45 | 3h 30m | 509 | 999 |
| 8 | May 9, 2018 04:15 | May 9, 2018 08:45 | 4h 30m | 494 | 2,223 |
| 9 | May 23, 2018 10:45 | May 23, 2018 13:45 | 3h | 494 | 1,482 |
| 10 | March 22, 2018 21:00 | March 22, 2018 23:00 | 2h | 482 | 483 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Blue Earth County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 73 min | 1.32 | 71 min | 1.30 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth County, MN annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/minnesota/blue-earth-county