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2020 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2163rd 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 Dodge 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 | April 7, 2020 11:00 | April 7, 2020 16:15 | 5h 15m | 906 | 2,041 |
| 2 | October 14, 2020 14:30 | October 14, 2020 16:30 | 2h | 626 | 1,252 |
| 3 | July 16, 2020 09:15 | July 16, 2020 17:15 | 8h | 614 | 1,847 |
| 4 | April 6, 2020 17:45 | April 6, 2020 18:15 | 30m | 612 | 250 |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 20:15 | April 10, 2020 00:30 | 4h 15m | 612 | 394 |
| 6 | January 22, 2020 09:00 | January 22, 2020 15:15 | 6h 15m | 370 | 1,038 |
| 7 | July 12, 2020 13:30 | July 12, 2020 17:30 | 4h | 172 | 473 |
| 8 | July 30, 2020 13:15 | July 30, 2020 14:15 | 1h | 172 | 172 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 11:15 | May 21, 2020 12:45 | 1h 30m | 170 | 255 |
| 10 | April 28, 2020 14:15 | April 28, 2020 17:00 | 2h 45m | 136 | 171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 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 Dodge 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2020 | 81 min | 0.80 | 54 min | 0.56 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.25 | 62 min | 0.71 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2020 | 74 min | 1.01 | 74 min | 1.01 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,199 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. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge 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/dodge-county