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2018 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1912th 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 Hennepin 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 | June 28, 2018 11:00 | July 3, 2018 13:00 | 5d 2h | 19,946 | 101K |
| 2 | September 17, 2018 11:15 | September 26, 2018 12:00 | 9d | 18,546 | 110K |
| 3 | July 24, 2018 13:00 | July 29, 2018 09:45 | 4d 20h | 8,655 | 43K |
| 4 | June 10, 2018 12:45 | June 15, 2018 08:15 | 4d 19h | 8,448 | 70K |
| 5 | March 9, 2018 12:30 | March 10, 2018 00:45 | 12h 15m | 8,334 | 35K |
| 6 | June 24, 2018 15:15 | June 28, 2018 07:30 | 3d 16h | 5,439 | 23K |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | June 5, 2018 05:45 | 10d 19h | 5,330 | 106K |
| 8 | January 12, 2018 15:30 | January 13, 2018 09:30 | 18h | 5,231 | 5,613 |
| 9 | July 11, 2018 10:45 | July 14, 2018 08:30 | 2d 21h | 5,194 | 40K |
| 10 | August 13, 2018 08:00 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 5d 3h | 5,059 | 52K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 186 reached 100+ customers, 62 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hennepin 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2018 | 40 min | 0.50 | 37 min | 0.47 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| City of Elk River | 2018 | 10 min | 0.17 | 10 min | 0.17 |
| City of Anoka | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 624,985 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. Hennepin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hennepin 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/hennepin-county