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2018 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 7,380 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2538th 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 Steele 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 24, 2018 12:45 | 3d 13h | 383 | 5,513 |
| 2 | December 10, 2018 09:45 | December 10, 2018 12:15 | 2h 30m | 309 | 773 |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 13:30 | May 14, 2018 14:00 | 30m | 304 | 152 |
| 4 | September 4, 2018 14:15 | September 4, 2018 15:15 | 1h | 277 | 277 |
| 5 | December 10, 2018 14:00 | December 10, 2018 16:45 | 2h 45m | 56 | 139 |
| 6 | January 22, 2018 14:45 | January 22, 2018 23:30 | 8h 45m | 39 | 154 |
| 7 | April 14, 2018 04:00 | April 14, 2018 09:15 | 5h 15m | 17 | 89 |
| 8 | September 17, 2018 19:30 | September 18, 2018 03:00 | 7h 30m | 15 | 38 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 12:00 | May 1, 2018 15:30 | 3h 30m | 14 | 44 |
| 10 | June 18, 2018 02:45 | June 18, 2018 04:00 | 1h 15m | 14 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.80 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2018 | 7.9 hrs | 0.89 | 14 min | 0.22 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county