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2019 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 278K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1829th 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 Washington 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 | May 30, 2019 06:30 | May 31, 2019 05:45 | 23h 15m | 12,226 | 13K |
| 2 | November 30, 2019 08:30 | December 1, 2019 01:15 | 16h 45m | 7,556 | 13K |
| 3 | July 15, 2019 02:45 | July 17, 2019 09:30 | 2d 6h | 6,288 | 44K |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 00:00 | April 12, 2019 21:45 | 1d 21h | 4,406 | 11K |
| 5 | May 20, 2019 23:15 | May 21, 2019 04:45 | 5h 30m | 3,790 | 8,423 |
| 6 | September 3, 2019 03:45 | September 4, 2019 02:45 | 23h | 3,364 | 16K |
| 7 | May 19, 2019 21:15 | May 20, 2019 09:45 | 12h 30m | 3,309 | 11K |
| 8 | May 11, 2019 14:15 | May 11, 2019 17:15 | 3h | 3,227 | 3,873 |
| 9 | August 20, 2019 09:45 | August 21, 2019 11:45 | 1d 2h | 3,166 | 6,373 |
| 10 | August 13, 2019 08:00 | August 15, 2019 21:30 | 2d 13h | 3,092 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 95 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
| Connexus Energy | 2018 | 40 min | 0.50 | 37 min | 0.47 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county