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2019 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 926K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2292nd 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 Hennepin 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 | May 3, 2019 13:45 | May 5, 2019 05:15 | 1d 15h | 11,259 | 9,616 |
| 2 | June 30, 2019 12:15 | July 4, 2019 10:00 | 3d 21h | 8,158 | 80K |
| 3 | September 30, 2019 03:30 | October 1, 2019 07:00 | 1d 3h | 7,859 | 27K |
| 4 | July 14, 2019 11:00 | July 24, 2019 19:45 | 10d 8h | 6,620 | 137K |
| 5 | April 6, 2019 12:45 | April 7, 2019 01:45 | 13h | 6,012 | 1,930 |
| 6 | February 1, 2019 13:15 | February 3, 2019 00:45 | 1d 11h | 5,775 | 9,825 |
| 7 | November 1, 2019 13:00 | November 9, 2019 11:45 | 7d 22h | 5,677 | 23K |
| 8 | September 17, 2019 11:15 | September 19, 2019 03:30 | 1d 16h | 4,347 | 30K |
| 9 | June 5, 2019 11:00 | June 8, 2019 08:15 | 2d 21h | 4,316 | 12K |
| 10 | November 15, 2019 03:15 | November 15, 2019 12:00 | 8h 45m | 4,052 | 2,476 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 228 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Hennepin 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2018 | 40 min | 0.50 | 37 min | 0.47 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| City of Elk River | 2018 | 10 min | 0.17 | 10 min | 0.17 |
| City of Anoka | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 624,985 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. Hennepin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hennepin 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/hennepin-county