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2019 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1729th 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 Freeborn 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 14, 2019 00:30 | 2d 19h | 747 | 39K |
| 2 | September 11, 2019 06:30 | September 11, 2019 17:00 | 10h 30m | 544 | 368 |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 16:15 | July 21, 2019 17:30 | 1d 1h | 477 | 1,599 |
| 4 | May 22, 2019 19:00 | May 23, 2019 02:00 | 7h | 468 | 2,810 |
| 5 | February 5, 2019 15:15 | February 5, 2019 16:45 | 1h 30m | 327 | 433 |
| 6 | April 14, 2019 17:30 | April 15, 2019 07:15 | 13h 45m | 280 | 435 |
| 7 | March 10, 2019 09:30 | March 10, 2019 12:15 | 2h 45m | 274 | 690 |
| 8 | December 12, 2019 19:00 | December 12, 2019 20:30 | 1h 30m | 44 | 66 |
| 9 | September 21, 2019 23:45 | September 22, 2019 05:30 | 5h 45m | 10 | 46 |
| 10 | September 18, 2019 13:30 | September 18, 2019 17:30 | 4h | 9 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county