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2019 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2207th 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 Rice 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 7, 2019 00:00 | April 7, 2019 04:30 | 4h 30m | 1,901 | 5,227 |
| 2 | April 11, 2019 02:15 | April 13, 2019 03:00 | 2d | 1,436 | 9,675 |
| 3 | May 2, 2019 14:45 | May 2, 2019 15:00 | 15m | 1,090 | 273 |
| 4 | May 26, 2019 16:15 | May 26, 2019 23:00 | 6h 45m | 737 | 2,268 |
| 5 | July 29, 2019 11:15 | July 29, 2019 13:15 | 2h | 588 | 1,029 |
| 6 | September 30, 2019 22:30 | October 1, 2019 02:45 | 4h 15m | 556 | 1,258 |
| 7 | October 14, 2019 20:00 | October 15, 2019 00:45 | 4h 45m | 484 | 509 |
| 8 | January 25, 2019 07:45 | January 25, 2019 13:00 | 5h 15m | 448 | 1,306 |
| 9 | May 25, 2019 12:15 | May 25, 2019 13:45 | 1h 30m | 412 | 515 |
| 10 | August 27, 2019 19:45 | August 28, 2019 03:30 | 7h 45m | 400 | 748 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 31 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 Rice 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2018 | 34 min | 0.47 | 19 min | 0.29 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county