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2018 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 3,773 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2603rd 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 Nicollet 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 8, 2018 14:30 | June 8, 2018 17:30 | 3h | 380 | 1,071 |
| 2 | December 16, 2018 10:15 | December 16, 2018 11:00 | 45m | 188 | 141 |
| 3 | September 20, 2018 23:30 | September 21, 2018 22:00 | 22h 30m | 136 | 518 |
| 4 | March 17, 2018 20:15 | March 17, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 94 | 141 |
| 5 | March 26, 2018 21:15 | March 27, 2018 02:30 | 5h 15m | 94 | 494 |
| 6 | September 22, 2018 19:15 | September 22, 2018 21:15 | 2h | 80 | 160 |
| 7 | March 25, 2018 20:15 | March 25, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 67 | 101 |
| 8 | June 28, 2018 04:30 | June 28, 2018 07:15 | 2h 45m | 49 | 135 |
| 9 | June 6, 2018 08:15 | June 6, 2018 12:00 | 3h 45m | 46 | 161 |
| 10 | June 11, 2018 20:00 | June 12, 2018 03:45 | 7h 45m | 32 | 95 |
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 Nicollet 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county