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2019 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,186 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2750th 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 Watonwan County, 2019
The 9 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 06:15 | April 12, 2019 03:45 | 21h 30m | 291 | 544 |
| 2 | July 27, 2019 06:00 | July 27, 2019 07:15 | 1h 15m | 284 | 284 |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 15:30 | July 21, 2019 03:45 | 12h 15m | 41 | 233 |
| 4 | October 24, 2019 14:30 | October 24, 2019 17:00 | 2h 30m | 37 | 84 |
| 5 | March 23, 2019 04:30 | March 23, 2019 22:45 | 18h 15m | 3 | 34 |
| 6 | March 22, 2019 19:45 | March 22, 2019 22:30 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | April 2, 2019 22:15 | April 3, 2019 00:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | June 3, 2019 17:30 | June 3, 2019 19:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | August 18, 2019 19:00 | August 18, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 2 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2018 | 67 min | 1.09 | 67 min | 1.09 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county