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2020 Brown County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brown County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 429 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2970th 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 Brown 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 | February 19, 2020 20:15 | February 20, 2020 01:45 | 5h 30m | 43 | 226 |
| 2 | July 6, 2020 11:15 | July 6, 2020 14:15 | 3h | 40 | 89 |
| 3 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | July 6, 2020 21:30 | 15m | 38 | 10 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 15:00 | June 30, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 36 | 45 |
| 5 | July 6, 2020 15:30 | July 6, 2020 16:45 | 1h 15m | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | March 29, 2020 04:15 | March 29, 2020 15:15 | 11h | 3 | 16 |
| 7 | October 9, 2020 16:30 | October 9, 2020 17:45 | 1h 15m | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | October 14, 2020 21:15 | October 14, 2020 23:15 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | July 3, 2020 19:15 | July 3, 2020 21:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | August 8, 2020 19:45 | August 9, 2020 00:00 | 4h 15m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 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 Brown 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| New Ulm Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sleepy Eye Public Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springfield Public Utils Comm - (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 ÷ 12,921 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county