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2019 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2225th 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 Sibley 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 09:00 | April 12, 2019 20:00 | 1d 11h | 1,336 | 4,673 |
| 2 | March 21, 2019 19:45 | March 21, 2019 21:00 | 1h 15m | 573 | 157 |
| 3 | February 3, 2019 04:45 | February 3, 2019 10:45 | 6h | 300 | 1,651 |
| 4 | June 4, 2019 19:45 | June 5, 2019 10:45 | 15h | 277 | 908 |
| 5 | January 29, 2019 18:00 | January 29, 2019 19:45 | 1h 45m | 246 | 259 |
| 6 | August 19, 2019 13:00 | August 19, 2019 15:15 | 2h 15m | 195 | 149 |
| 7 | April 17, 2019 17:45 | April 18, 2019 01:00 | 7h 15m | 191 | 339 |
| 8 | October 12, 2019 17:30 | October 12, 2019 23:00 | 5h 30m | 151 | 653 |
| 9 | July 5, 2019 22:45 | July 6, 2019 04:00 | 5h 15m | 88 | 266 |
| 10 | February 4, 2019 03:30 | February 4, 2019 04:45 | 1h 15m | 81 | 101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Sibley 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county