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2018 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 7,732 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2263rd 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 Sibley 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 | March 8, 2018 17:00 | March 8, 2018 17:15 | 15m | 658 | 165 |
| 2 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 04:30 | 1h 15m | 618 | 773 |
| 3 | June 5, 2018 18:45 | June 5, 2018 20:00 | 1h 15m | 543 | 408 |
| 4 | August 9, 2018 06:15 | August 9, 2018 16:00 | 9h 45m | 326 | 3,145 |
| 5 | March 5, 2018 17:30 | March 5, 2018 20:15 | 2h 45m | 234 | 354 |
| 6 | March 5, 2018 21:45 | March 5, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 226 | 57 |
| 7 | July 1, 2018 15:30 | July 1, 2018 18:30 | 3h | 139 | 225 |
| 8 | July 3, 2018 16:00 | July 3, 2018 18:00 | 2h | 129 | 195 |
| 9 | April 19, 2018 12:30 | April 19, 2018 14:45 | 2h 15m | 82 | 172 |
| 10 | August 7, 2018 06:30 | August 7, 2018 09:30 | 3h | 82 | 226 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 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 Sibley 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county