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2019 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,756 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2676th 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 Nicollet 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 | October 9, 2019 16:00 | October 9, 2019 16:45 | 45m | 1,047 | 785 |
| 2 | March 14, 2019 10:00 | March 14, 2019 16:00 | 6h | 683 | 1,551 |
| 3 | April 19, 2019 03:15 | April 19, 2019 05:00 | 1h 45m | 670 | 1,173 |
| 4 | March 27, 2019 11:15 | March 27, 2019 13:15 | 2h | 669 | 838 |
| 5 | September 25, 2019 00:00 | September 25, 2019 03:45 | 3h 45m | 382 | 859 |
| 6 | October 11, 2019 04:45 | October 11, 2019 05:15 | 30m | 85 | 36 |
| 7 | April 11, 2019 04:30 | April 12, 2019 15:45 | 1d 11h | 83 | 999 |
| 8 | July 27, 2019 12:45 | July 27, 2019 14:30 | 1h 45m | 79 | 119 |
| 9 | June 29, 2019 10:45 | June 29, 2019 13:30 | 2h 45m | 76 | 209 |
| 10 | June 15, 2019 01:00 | June 15, 2019 02:15 | 1h 15m | 68 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicollet 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county