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2019 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2082nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2019
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 17, 2019 13:00 | September 17, 2019 21:15 | 8h 15m | 7,170 | 12K |
| 2 | April 23, 2019 20:15 | April 24, 2019 03:00 | 6h 45m | 1,660 | 5,408 |
| 3 | November 13, 2019 17:00 | November 14, 2019 01:45 | 8h 45m | 1,431 | 2,155 |
| 4 | July 26, 2019 00:15 | July 26, 2019 05:15 | 5h | 1,249 | 1,428 |
| 5 | May 22, 2019 02:00 | May 22, 2019 06:30 | 4h 30m | 714 | 212 |
| 6 | April 25, 2019 19:15 | April 25, 2019 20:15 | 1h | 657 | 657 |
| 7 | May 19, 2019 20:45 | May 19, 2019 23:15 | 2h 30m | 655 | 821 |
| 8 | September 2, 2019 14:15 | September 2, 2019 16:30 | 2h 15m | 626 | 1,409 |
| 9 | July 20, 2019 19:00 | July 21, 2019 07:30 | 12h 30m | 573 | 2,871 |
| 10 | January 30, 2019 11:00 | January 30, 2019 15:45 | 4h 45m | 375 | 692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/minnesota/benton-county