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2019 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,917 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2732nd 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 Faribault 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 05:30 | April 12, 2019 03:30 | 22h | 414 | 1,568 |
| 2 | July 20, 2019 15:45 | July 21, 2019 03:30 | 11h 45m | 30 | 272 |
| 3 | September 18, 2019 11:15 | September 18, 2019 14:45 | 3h 30m | 17 | 43 |
| 4 | July 10, 2019 21:15 | July 10, 2019 23:15 | 2h | 10 | 11 |
| 5 | January 4, 2019 20:00 | January 4, 2019 21:30 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | July 2, 2019 10:30 | July 2, 2019 12:45 | 2h 15m | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | March 10, 2019 10:00 | March 10, 2019 10:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | March 15, 2019 05:30 | March 15, 2019 05:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | June 26, 2019 12:15 | June 26, 2019 15:45 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | July 17, 2019 19:45 | July 17, 2019 21:45 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 1 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| 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 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county