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2018 Brown County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Brown County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 341 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2720th 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 Brown County, 2018
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 06:00 | 2h 45m | 108 | 297 |
| 2 | October 16, 2018 20:00 | October 16, 2018 20:30 | 30m | 34 | 17 |
| 3 | March 24, 2018 06:00 | March 24, 2018 09:45 | 3h 45m | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | May 27, 2018 00:15 | May 27, 2018 00:30 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | July 26, 2018 22:00 | July 27, 2018 00:15 | 2h 15m | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | March 6, 2018 14:15 | March 6, 2018 18:00 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | August 15, 2018 13:00 | August 15, 2018 15:15 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | September 11, 2018 17:30 | September 11, 2018 19:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | October 9, 2018 02:00 | October 9, 2018 05:45 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 1 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 Brown 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| New Ulm Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sleepy Eye Public Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springfield Public Utils Comm - (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 ÷ 12,921 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county