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2020 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 8,871 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2527th 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 Houston 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 | May 21, 2020 21:00 | May 21, 2020 22:45 | 1h 45m | 2,871 | 2,871 |
| 2 | July 22, 2020 03:00 | July 22, 2020 05:00 | 2h | 1,376 | 2,752 |
| 3 | September 23, 2020 19:45 | September 24, 2020 00:00 | 4h 15m | 325 | 688 |
| 4 | June 3, 2020 00:00 | June 3, 2020 08:30 | 8h 30m | 219 | 1,104 |
| 5 | July 19, 2020 04:30 | July 19, 2020 12:45 | 8h 15m | 121 | 338 |
| 6 | November 4, 2020 19:45 | November 4, 2020 21:00 | 1h 15m | 57 | 57 |
| 7 | July 26, 2020 12:00 | July 26, 2020 18:15 | 6h 15m | 45 | 259 |
| 8 | January 15, 2020 16:45 | January 15, 2020 21:30 | 4h 45m | 23 | 21 |
| 9 | February 3, 2020 18:00 | February 3, 2020 18:30 | 30m | 22 | 11 |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 14:45 | November 1, 2020 21:30 | 6h 45m | 20 | 73 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2020 | 55 min | 0.47 | 55 min | 0.47 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county