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2019 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2436th 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 Stearns 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 | September 17, 2019 11:45 | September 18, 2019 00:30 | 12h 45m | 4,956 | 10K |
| 2 | September 11, 2019 07:00 | September 12, 2019 02:15 | 19h 15m | 3,498 | 5,674 |
| 3 | April 7, 2019 06:15 | April 7, 2019 09:15 | 3h | 3,054 | 9,161 |
| 4 | May 27, 2019 06:45 | May 28, 2019 00:30 | 17h 45m | 2,869 | 1,572 |
| 5 | January 2, 2019 03:00 | January 2, 2019 10:15 | 7h 15m | 2,774 | 6,238 |
| 6 | September 3, 2019 00:15 | September 4, 2019 02:00 | 1d 1h | 2,564 | 14K |
| 7 | November 13, 2019 17:00 | November 13, 2019 20:15 | 3h 15m | 2,525 | 3,513 |
| 8 | October 11, 2019 19:30 | October 12, 2019 03:00 | 7h 30m | 2,277 | 4,997 |
| 9 | September 18, 2019 07:30 | September 19, 2019 07:15 | 23h 45m | 2,027 | 2,915 |
| 10 | February 17, 2019 13:15 | February 17, 2019 18:30 | 5h 15m | 1,490 | 2,275 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 40 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 | 1.6 hrs | 1.38 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county