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2019 Olmsted County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Olmsted County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2805th 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 Olmsted 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 13:00 | April 13, 2019 03:00 | 1d 14h | 612 | 1,974 |
| 2 | July 20, 2019 14:00 | July 21, 2019 03:00 | 13h | 604 | 1,608 |
| 3 | September 25, 2019 01:00 | September 25, 2019 19:00 | 18h | 455 | 4,072 |
| 4 | May 16, 2019 11:15 | May 16, 2019 13:30 | 2h 15m | 194 | 415 |
| 5 | June 4, 2019 22:45 | June 5, 2019 16:15 | 17h 30m | 164 | 1,088 |
| 6 | May 6, 2019 17:00 | May 6, 2019 19:00 | 2h | 160 | 320 |
| 7 | June 23, 2019 21:45 | June 24, 2019 01:00 | 3h 15m | 160 | 517 |
| 8 | August 15, 2019 03:30 | August 15, 2019 06:15 | 2h 45m | 159 | 437 |
| 9 | September 11, 2019 09:45 | September 11, 2019 16:45 | 7h | 32 | 142 |
| 10 | June 6, 2019 22:00 | June 7, 2019 00:00 | 2h | 30 | 60 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Olmsted 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 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.80 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 0.93 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| Rochester Public Utilities | 2018 | 64 min | 0.85 | 31 min | 0.51 |
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 ÷ 76,519 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. Olmsted County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Olmsted 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/olmsted-county