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2019 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 449th 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 Waseca 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 02:45 | April 14, 2019 00:30 | 2d 21h | 2,374 | 82K |
| 2 | February 5, 2019 15:15 | February 5, 2019 16:45 | 1h 30m | 798 | 1,197 |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 12:15 | July 22, 2019 00:00 | 1d 11h | 686 | 4,302 |
| 4 | November 10, 2019 03:30 | November 10, 2019 06:15 | 2h 45m | 671 | 1,845 |
| 5 | April 17, 2019 18:30 | April 18, 2019 01:45 | 7h 15m | 486 | 630 |
| 6 | October 24, 2019 03:45 | October 24, 2019 10:15 | 6h 30m | 243 | 1,459 |
| 7 | January 3, 2019 15:00 | January 3, 2019 15:45 | 45m | 226 | 170 |
| 8 | August 8, 2019 06:15 | August 8, 2019 08:30 | 2h 15m | 185 | 416 |
| 9 | January 6, 2019 23:00 | January 7, 2019 04:45 | 5h 45m | 124 | 463 |
| 10 | August 18, 2019 08:30 | August 18, 2019 16:00 | 7h 30m | 106 | 498 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2018 | 76 min | 2.22 | 69 min | 2.20 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county