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2018 Le Sueur County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Le Sueur County, MN went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 538th 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 Le Sueur 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 18:45 | September 24, 2018 23:45 | 4d 5h | 2,991 | 96K |
| 2 | March 5, 2018 04:15 | March 5, 2018 06:00 | 1h 45m | 2,100 | 3,533 |
| 3 | March 13, 2018 16:00 | March 13, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 2,095 | 528 |
| 4 | August 27, 2018 21:45 | August 28, 2018 05:15 | 7h 30m | 1,430 | 5,442 |
| 5 | September 26, 2018 15:00 | September 26, 2018 20:30 | 5h 30m | 1,169 | 298 |
| 6 | October 3, 2018 15:45 | October 3, 2018 16:00 | 15m | 779 | 195 |
| 7 | May 15, 2018 14:15 | May 15, 2018 16:15 | 2h | 585 | 707 |
| 8 | July 1, 2018 15:45 | July 1, 2018 22:30 | 6h 45m | 499 | 469 |
| 9 | December 8, 2018 17:00 | December 9, 2018 02:30 | 9h 30m | 472 | 1,063 |
| 10 | February 15, 2018 16:00 | February 15, 2018 18:30 | 2h 30m | 424 | 108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Le Sueur 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasota - (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 ÷ 11,683 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. Le Sueur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Le Sueur 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/le-sueur-county