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2019 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1906th 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 Blue Earth 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 | April 11, 2019 03:00 | April 13, 2019 18:30 | 2d 15h | 2,481 | 31K |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 08:00 | June 20, 2019 09:15 | 1h 15m | 1,817 | 1,801 |
| 3 | September 24, 2019 14:00 | September 24, 2019 15:00 | 1h | 1,775 | 1,321 |
| 4 | March 27, 2019 11:15 | March 27, 2019 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,739 | 2,174 |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 03:15 | April 19, 2019 08:30 | 5h 15m | 1,729 | 3,029 |
| 6 | December 1, 2019 16:30 | December 1, 2019 19:15 | 2h 45m | 1,628 | 3,257 |
| 7 | October 9, 2019 13:45 | October 9, 2019 19:45 | 6h | 1,627 | 1,022 |
| 8 | July 20, 2019 12:45 | July 21, 2019 17:30 | 1d 4h | 1,570 | 7,514 |
| 9 | August 18, 2019 06:00 | August 18, 2019 20:45 | 14h 45m | 1,090 | 3,426 |
| 10 | July 28, 2019 22:15 | July 29, 2019 06:15 | 8h | 896 | 3,156 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 35 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county