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2019 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2215th 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 Steele 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 03:00 | April 13, 2019 21:15 | 2d 18h | 673 | 25K |
| 2 | April 17, 2019 22:00 | April 17, 2019 23:15 | 1h 15m | 306 | 383 |
| 3 | December 3, 2019 20:30 | December 3, 2019 20:45 | 15m | 282 | 71 |
| 4 | August 18, 2019 08:45 | August 18, 2019 15:15 | 6h 30m | 246 | 210 |
| 5 | July 20, 2019 16:00 | July 21, 2019 22:15 | 1d 6h | 175 | 1,934 |
| 6 | July 24, 2019 17:15 | July 24, 2019 18:15 | 1h | 70 | 36 |
| 7 | May 22, 2019 08:15 | May 22, 2019 13:30 | 5h 15m | 63 | 250 |
| 8 | July 5, 2019 21:30 | July 6, 2019 05:00 | 7h 30m | 53 | 88 |
| 9 | October 17, 2019 19:15 | October 17, 2019 20:30 | 1h 15m | 38 | 38 |
| 10 | June 11, 2019 21:15 | June 11, 2019 22:45 | 1h 30m | 22 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.80 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2018 | 7.9 hrs | 0.89 | 14 min | 0.22 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county