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2020 Le Sueur County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Le Sueur County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2013th 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 Le Sueur 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 | July 19, 2020 11:15 | July 19, 2020 17:15 | 6h | 2,846 | 6,594 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 18:30 | July 12, 2020 03:15 | 8h 45m | 1,363 | 2,559 |
| 3 | July 27, 2020 11:15 | July 27, 2020 18:45 | 7h 30m | 1,196 | 1,815 |
| 4 | October 2, 2020 13:15 | October 2, 2020 14:00 | 45m | 1,190 | 298 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 00:45 | July 9, 2020 03:15 | 2h 30m | 868 | 1,304 |
| 6 | May 17, 2020 09:15 | May 17, 2020 22:30 | 13h 15m | 835 | 3,498 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 08:30 | July 18, 2020 17:00 | 8h 30m | 614 | 1,010 |
| 8 | December 23, 2020 22:30 | December 24, 2020 19:30 | 21h | 451 | 1,442 |
| 9 | August 9, 2020 13:00 | August 9, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 422 | 971 |
| 10 | August 22, 2020 04:30 | August 22, 2020 07:45 | 3h 15m | 416 | 675 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Le Sueur 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasota - (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 ÷ 11,683 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. Le Sueur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Le Sueur 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/le-sueur-county