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2020 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2594th 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 Blue Earth 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 | November 3, 2020 15:15 | November 3, 2020 17:30 | 2h 15m | 3,099 | 3,086 |
| 2 | July 17, 2020 23:15 | July 18, 2020 06:15 | 7h | 1,778 | 5,540 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 18:15 | December 24, 2020 19:00 | 1d | 1,592 | 6,725 |
| 4 | July 27, 2020 15:30 | July 27, 2020 20:15 | 4h 45m | 1,264 | 3,664 |
| 5 | October 24, 2020 04:30 | October 24, 2020 04:45 | 15m | 1,082 | 271 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 17:00 | June 12, 2020 19:00 | 2h | 1,024 | 768 |
| 7 | July 11, 2020 20:45 | July 12, 2020 11:00 | 14h 15m | 606 | 2,300 |
| 8 | March 10, 2020 23:00 | March 11, 2020 00:15 | 1h 15m | 578 | 722 |
| 9 | May 13, 2020 15:30 | May 13, 2020 17:00 | 1h 30m | 575 | 863 |
| 10 | July 23, 2020 12:45 | July 23, 2020 14:45 | 2h | 542 | 757 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2020 | 63 min | 0.79 | 44 min | 0.44 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2020 | 81 min | 0.80 | 54 min | 0.56 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.32 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county