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2019 Le Sueur County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Le Sueur County, MN went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1246th 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 Le Sueur 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 | November 10, 2019 03:15 | November 10, 2019 06:15 | 3h | 3,287 | 9,040 |
| 2 | January 7, 2019 23:00 | January 8, 2019 13:30 | 14h 30m | 2,713 | 7,427 |
| 3 | May 15, 2019 19:00 | May 15, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 1,317 | 329 |
| 4 | March 14, 2019 21:15 | March 14, 2019 21:45 | 30m | 1,166 | 292 |
| 5 | June 6, 2019 22:15 | June 7, 2019 07:45 | 9h 30m | 857 | 3,647 |
| 6 | April 11, 2019 03:00 | April 12, 2019 00:15 | 21h 15m | 737 | 8,928 |
| 7 | October 27, 2019 14:15 | October 27, 2019 16:45 | 2h 30m | 710 | 1,555 |
| 8 | July 1, 2019 05:15 | July 1, 2019 18:15 | 13h | 648 | 1,267 |
| 9 | July 3, 2019 14:15 | July 3, 2019 14:30 | 15m | 629 | 157 |
| 10 | October 11, 2019 16:15 | October 11, 2019 18:45 | 2h 30m | 629 | 319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Le Sueur 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasota - (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 ÷ 11,683 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. Le Sueur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Le Sueur 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/le-sueur-county