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2018 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 276K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 591st 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 Rice 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 23:45 | September 25, 2018 03:45 | 4d 4h | 8,760 | 239K |
| 2 | August 10, 2018 09:15 | August 10, 2018 15:30 | 6h 15m | 4,829 | 5,185 |
| 3 | September 17, 2018 19:15 | September 18, 2018 08:45 | 13h 30m | 1,346 | 3,271 |
| 4 | June 15, 2018 13:30 | June 15, 2018 13:45 | 15m | 1,179 | 295 |
| 5 | June 18, 2018 02:45 | June 18, 2018 04:00 | 1h 15m | 1,173 | 1,374 |
| 6 | April 27, 2018 18:30 | April 27, 2018 20:45 | 2h 15m | 981 | 982 |
| 7 | July 31, 2018 13:30 | July 31, 2018 22:15 | 8h 45m | 981 | 815 |
| 8 | May 26, 2018 13:00 | May 27, 2018 09:45 | 20h 45m | 569 | 1,629 |
| 9 | August 9, 2018 22:30 | August 10, 2018 00:00 | 1h 30m | 530 | 795 |
| 10 | November 1, 2018 15:15 | November 1, 2018 20:15 | 5h | 472 | 1,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 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 Rice 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county