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2018 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 962nd 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 Waseca 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 09:15 | 3d 9h | 1,978 | 37K |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 13:30 | May 14, 2018 14:15 | 45m | 1,745 | 879 |
| 3 | January 22, 2018 16:45 | January 22, 2018 22:30 | 5h 45m | 264 | 849 |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 13:45 | July 20, 2018 17:30 | 3h 45m | 252 | 86 |
| 5 | November 13, 2018 15:00 | November 13, 2018 17:30 | 2h 30m | 226 | 229 |
| 6 | December 10, 2018 08:15 | December 10, 2018 12:15 | 4h | 207 | 778 |
| 7 | June 16, 2018 10:30 | June 16, 2018 18:00 | 7h 30m | 196 | 507 |
| 8 | November 21, 2018 19:15 | November 21, 2018 21:30 | 2h 15m | 173 | 340 |
| 9 | August 27, 2018 21:45 | August 28, 2018 07:15 | 9h 30m | 134 | 313 |
| 10 | April 13, 2018 16:00 | April 13, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 79 | 59 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2018 | 76 min | 2.22 | 69 min | 2.20 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county