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2018 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 5,626 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2574th 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 Freeborn 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 20, 2018 23:45 | September 21, 2018 19:00 | 19h 15m | 477 | 4,679 |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 13:30 | May 14, 2018 14:00 | 30m | 281 | 141 |
| 3 | May 30, 2018 15:30 | May 30, 2018 18:00 | 2h 30m | 206 | 459 |
| 4 | October 8, 2018 10:00 | October 8, 2018 18:45 | 8h 45m | 37 | 179 |
| 5 | March 5, 2018 16:30 | March 5, 2018 19:45 | 3h 15m | 15 | 19 |
| 6 | May 29, 2018 21:00 | May 30, 2018 00:15 | 3h 15m | 12 | 32 |
| 7 | November 1, 2018 16:30 | November 1, 2018 22:30 | 6h | 9 | 20 |
| 8 | January 2, 2018 23:45 | January 3, 2018 04:00 | 4h 15m | 7 | 30 |
| 9 | April 14, 2018 13:30 | April 14, 2018 21:00 | 7h 30m | 4 | 29 |
| 10 | March 5, 2018 23:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 1h 15m | 2 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 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 Freeborn 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county