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2018 Ramsey County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ramsey County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 435K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2000th 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 Ramsey 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 | October 11, 2018 00:15 | October 12, 2018 02:30 | 1d 2h | 8,433 | 9,535 |
| 2 | August 15, 2018 11:15 | August 15, 2018 23:00 | 11h 45m | 8,006 | 10K |
| 3 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | May 31, 2018 02:30 | 5d 16h | 6,947 | 55K |
| 4 | June 19, 2018 04:00 | June 20, 2018 01:00 | 21h | 6,181 | 15K |
| 5 | February 21, 2018 13:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 12d 11h | 5,229 | 26K |
| 6 | August 3, 2018 13:30 | August 5, 2018 00:45 | 1d 11h | 4,004 | 8,428 |
| 7 | September 20, 2018 11:00 | September 23, 2018 09:45 | 2d 22h | 3,392 | 22K |
| 8 | September 3, 2018 15:45 | September 4, 2018 05:00 | 13h 15m | 3,345 | 2,822 |
| 9 | December 6, 2018 23:30 | December 7, 2018 07:00 | 7h 30m | 3,256 | 4,077 |
| 10 | October 2, 2018 12:00 | October 5, 2018 03:15 | 2d 15h | 3,236 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 140 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2018 | 40 min | 0.50 | 37 min | 0.47 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 257,190 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. Ramsey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county