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2020 Mower County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mower County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,392 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2951st 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 Mower 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 13:15 | 2h 15m | 135 | 304 |
| 2 | September 6, 2020 06:00 | September 6, 2020 21:15 | 15h 15m | 66 | 414 |
| 3 | June 23, 2020 13:00 | June 23, 2020 13:15 | 15m | 57 | 14 |
| 4 | June 3, 2020 00:45 | June 3, 2020 06:30 | 5h 45m | 31 | 115 |
| 5 | August 24, 2020 19:00 | August 24, 2020 21:45 | 2h 45m | 18 | 42 |
| 6 | November 10, 2020 20:30 | November 11, 2020 00:30 | 4h | 17 | 65 |
| 7 | July 13, 2020 15:15 | July 13, 2020 17:45 | 2h 30m | 15 | 28 |
| 8 | June 16, 2020 00:15 | June 16, 2020 11:00 | 10h 45m | 13 | 129 |
| 9 | November 23, 2020 15:30 | November 23, 2020 21:30 | 6h | 13 | 18 |
| 10 | April 6, 2020 00:45 | April 6, 2020 04:00 | 3h 15m | 9 | 27 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Mower 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2020 | 55 min | 0.47 | 55 min | 0.47 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.25 | 62 min | 0.71 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2020 | 74 min | 1.01 | 74 min | 1.01 |
| City of Austin - (MN) | 2020 | 9 min | 0.18 | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,846 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. Mower County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mower 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/mower-county