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2020 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1695th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 22, 2020 04:45 | March 22, 2020 07:00 | 2h 15m | 3,590 | 8,072 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 04:00 | March 31, 2020 02:45 | 1d 22h | 3,121 | 13K |
| 3 | March 22, 2020 15:15 | March 23, 2020 05:45 | 14h 30m | 2,240 | 11K |
| 4 | July 26, 2020 09:30 | July 26, 2020 21:30 | 12h | 1,997 | 5,666 |
| 5 | February 11, 2020 20:00 | February 11, 2020 22:00 | 2h | 1,964 | 2,947 |
| 6 | August 23, 2020 20:15 | August 24, 2020 04:30 | 8h 15m | 1,750 | 5,364 |
| 7 | May 16, 2020 18:00 | May 16, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,707 | 2,988 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 03:15 | October 12, 2020 06:45 | 3h 30m | 1,334 | 3,665 |
| 9 | May 14, 2020 01:45 | May 14, 2020 19:00 | 17h 15m | 1,252 | 3,164 |
| 10 | July 8, 2020 13:00 | July 8, 2020 16:15 | 3h 15m | 768 | 792 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 20 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/minnesota/benton-county