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2018 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2289th 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 Stearns 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 | May 8, 2018 19:30 | May 8, 2018 23:00 | 3h 30m | 4,327 | 9,885 |
| 2 | April 30, 2018 12:45 | May 1, 2018 00:45 | 12h | 2,939 | 4,525 |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 15:45 | August 28, 2018 04:15 | 12h 30m | 2,717 | 2,738 |
| 4 | August 3, 2018 23:15 | August 4, 2018 10:45 | 11h 30m | 2,165 | 5,256 |
| 5 | July 3, 2018 03:45 | July 4, 2018 05:15 | 1d 1h | 1,657 | 9,193 |
| 6 | May 9, 2018 09:15 | May 9, 2018 19:45 | 10h 30m | 757 | 259 |
| 7 | April 8, 2018 20:15 | April 9, 2018 06:15 | 10h | 655 | 6,541 |
| 8 | May 8, 2018 09:45 | May 8, 2018 12:30 | 2h 45m | 652 | 1,677 |
| 9 | August 8, 2018 10:45 | August 8, 2018 16:15 | 5h 30m | 585 | 735 |
| 10 | June 11, 2018 21:00 | June 13, 2018 01:15 | 1d 4h | 561 | 2,932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 49 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 | 1.6 hrs | 1.38 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county