County annual report · FIPS 27055
2019 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1945th 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 Houston 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 17:30 | April 12, 2019 04:15 | 10h 45m | 2,865 | 4,687 |
| 2 | April 23, 2019 04:45 | April 23, 2019 19:15 | 14h 30m | 1,487 | 5,299 |
| 3 | July 19, 2019 04:30 | July 19, 2019 12:00 | 7h 30m | 1,378 | 2,833 |
| 4 | March 14, 2019 23:45 | March 15, 2019 04:00 | 4h 15m | 368 | 683 |
| 5 | August 5, 2019 14:15 | August 5, 2019 18:15 | 4h | 74 | 209 |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 20:00 | February 24, 2019 22:00 | 2h | 68 | 119 |
| 7 | October 8, 2019 18:30 | October 8, 2019 20:45 | 2h 15m | 58 | 59 |
| 8 | January 22, 2019 22:45 | January 23, 2019 01:15 | 2h 30m | 56 | 140 |
| 9 | October 16, 2019 14:30 | October 16, 2019 20:15 | 5h 45m | 30 | 128 |
| 10 | July 19, 2019 14:30 | July 19, 2019 17:30 | 3h | 29 | 78 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.70 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county