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2018 Goodhue County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Goodhue County, MN went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 602nd 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 Goodhue 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 29, 2018 16:00 | March 29, 2018 22:15 | 6h 15m | 6,751 | 14K |
| 2 | September 21, 2018 00:15 | September 24, 2018 06:00 | 3d 5h | 1,840 | 77K |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 23:00 | August 28, 2018 21:15 | 22h 15m | 1,510 | 4,172 |
| 4 | June 3, 2018 14:15 | June 3, 2018 16:45 | 2h 30m | 1,378 | 2,413 |
| 5 | July 13, 2018 00:00 | July 13, 2018 19:45 | 19h 45m | 1,019 | 2,648 |
| 6 | April 13, 2018 23:45 | April 15, 2018 00:30 | 1d | 1,009 | 3,200 |
| 7 | March 26, 2018 15:45 | March 26, 2018 17:45 | 2h | 981 | 1,802 |
| 8 | May 26, 2018 15:45 | May 26, 2018 20:45 | 5h | 690 | 1,726 |
| 9 | July 12, 2018 11:00 | July 12, 2018 22:45 | 11h 45m | 500 | 1,240 |
| 10 | October 27, 2018 00:00 | October 27, 2018 08:30 | 8h 30m | 398 | 2,224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Goodhue 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2018 | 34 min | 0.47 | 19 min | 0.29 |
| City of Lake City - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kenyon Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,457 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. Goodhue County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Goodhue 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/goodhue-county