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2018 Carver County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carver County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1777th 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 Carver 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 | August 4, 2018 01:15 | August 5, 2018 00:45 | 23h 30m | 2,288 | 10K |
| 2 | February 22, 2018 04:30 | February 22, 2018 18:45 | 14h 15m | 2,215 | 2,947 |
| 3 | July 11, 2018 17:30 | July 12, 2018 00:45 | 7h 15m | 2,119 | 2,138 |
| 4 | May 2, 2018 05:15 | May 2, 2018 22:30 | 17h 15m | 2,059 | 12K |
| 5 | January 18, 2018 19:45 | January 19, 2018 02:15 | 6h 30m | 1,727 | 3,549 |
| 6 | August 1, 2018 11:00 | August 1, 2018 12:45 | 1h 45m | 1,483 | 1,485 |
| 7 | July 27, 2018 02:00 | July 27, 2018 20:15 | 18h 15m | 1,469 | 5,166 |
| 8 | September 30, 2018 03:15 | September 30, 2018 08:30 | 5h 15m | 1,438 | 7,445 |
| 9 | November 29, 2018 11:30 | November 29, 2018 20:15 | 8h 45m | 1,325 | 4,598 |
| 10 | May 28, 2018 21:15 | May 29, 2018 09:45 | 12h 30m | 1,292 | 1,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 55 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Carver 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| City of Chaska - (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 ÷ 43,054 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. Carver County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carver 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/carver-county