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2018 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2290th 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 Scott 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 15, 2018 13:30 | June 15, 2018 17:30 | 4h | 6,525 | 3,898 |
| 2 | April 6, 2018 15:45 | April 6, 2018 22:00 | 6h 15m | 3,610 | 14K |
| 3 | December 2, 2018 10:00 | December 2, 2018 14:45 | 4h 45m | 3,099 | 7,451 |
| 4 | May 7, 2018 17:45 | May 7, 2018 18:30 | 45m | 2,609 | 653 |
| 5 | July 1, 2018 15:00 | July 2, 2018 09:00 | 18h | 2,519 | 4,595 |
| 6 | July 2, 2018 14:30 | July 2, 2018 21:45 | 7h 15m | 2,105 | 909 |
| 7 | March 5, 2018 06:00 | March 5, 2018 06:15 | 15m | 2,100 | 525 |
| 8 | February 19, 2018 15:45 | February 19, 2018 21:15 | 5h 30m | 2,037 | 515 |
| 9 | July 23, 2018 13:15 | July 24, 2018 16:00 | 1d 2h | 1,755 | 906 |
| 10 | June 12, 2018 16:45 | June 12, 2018 22:00 | 5h 15m | 1,750 | 1,622 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 44 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2018 | 34 min | 0.47 | 19 min | 0.29 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2018 | 13 min | 0.21 | 13 min | 0.21 |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county