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2018 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2033rd 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 Dodge 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 | September 10, 2018 13:00 | September 10, 2018 14:30 | 1h 30m | 750 | 751 |
| 2 | September 21, 2018 00:15 | September 22, 2018 10:00 | 1d 9h | 238 | 2,913 |
| 3 | May 26, 2018 01:45 | May 26, 2018 20:15 | 18h 30m | 237 | 1,272 |
| 4 | August 24, 2018 22:00 | August 25, 2018 07:00 | 9h | 227 | 1,265 |
| 5 | June 3, 2018 14:30 | June 3, 2018 20:15 | 5h 45m | 203 | 390 |
| 6 | October 2, 2018 15:45 | October 2, 2018 17:00 | 1h 15m | 141 | 163 |
| 7 | May 27, 2018 00:15 | May 27, 2018 04:00 | 3h 45m | 98 | 284 |
| 8 | May 19, 2018 11:45 | May 19, 2018 16:30 | 4h 45m | 97 | 439 |
| 9 | July 20, 2018 14:45 | July 20, 2018 16:15 | 1h 30m | 81 | 122 |
| 10 | May 29, 2018 09:45 | May 29, 2018 23:15 | 13h 30m | 65 | 240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 Dodge 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.80 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 0.93 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,199 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. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge 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/dodge-county