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2020 Goodhue County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Goodhue County, MN went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1259th 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 Goodhue 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 | August 8, 2020 18:30 | August 11, 2020 01:15 | 2d 6h | 4,897 | 49K |
| 2 | October 22, 2020 21:15 | October 22, 2020 22:45 | 1h 30m | 3,824 | 1,913 |
| 3 | May 18, 2020 15:15 | May 18, 2020 21:30 | 6h 15m | 1,973 | 2,560 |
| 4 | April 29, 2020 19:15 | April 30, 2020 00:45 | 5h 30m | 1,138 | 1,727 |
| 5 | November 4, 2020 21:45 | November 4, 2020 22:30 | 45m | 1,041 | 326 |
| 6 | January 27, 2020 10:15 | January 27, 2020 11:00 | 45m | 558 | 419 |
| 7 | January 3, 2020 11:00 | January 3, 2020 14:30 | 3h 30m | 402 | 1,107 |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 00:30 | June 29, 2020 02:15 | 1h 45m | 373 | 374 |
| 9 | July 24, 2020 14:30 | July 24, 2020 18:00 | 3h 30m | 321 | 917 |
| 10 | March 13, 2020 23:30 | March 14, 2020 08:30 | 9h | 272 | 1,714 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Goodhue 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2020 | 21 min | 0.32 | 19 min | 0.31 |
| City of Lake City - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kenyon Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,457 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. Goodhue County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Goodhue 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/goodhue-county