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2019 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2464th 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 Dakota 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 25, 2019 01:15 | September 26, 2019 12:00 | 1d 10h | 5,625 | 13K |
| 2 | April 18, 2019 14:00 | May 23, 2019 19:30 | 35d 5h | 5,264 | 14K |
| 3 | June 4, 2019 21:45 | June 5, 2019 19:00 | 21h 15m | 4,825 | 20K |
| 4 | March 9, 2019 20:45 | March 9, 2019 23:45 | 3h | 3,683 | 2,366 |
| 5 | July 19, 2019 17:45 | July 26, 2019 01:45 | 6d 8h | 2,713 | 14K |
| 6 | August 20, 2019 15:30 | August 21, 2019 06:00 | 14h 30m | 2,575 | 12K |
| 7 | July 26, 2019 15:30 | August 3, 2019 04:00 | 7d 12h | 2,468 | 8,939 |
| 8 | June 6, 2019 08:15 | June 6, 2019 10:00 | 1h 45m | 1,975 | 1,980 |
| 9 | June 8, 2019 22:30 | June 11, 2019 18:15 | 2d 19h | 1,819 | 7,774 |
| 10 | June 27, 2019 15:15 | June 28, 2019 08:15 | 17h | 1,614 | 2,728 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 88 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2018 | 34 min | 0.47 | 19 min | 0.29 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county