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2020 Ramsey County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ramsey County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 629K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2071st 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 Ramsey 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 | June 4, 2020 13:45 | June 6, 2020 01:45 | 1d 12h | 16,557 | 36K |
| 2 | December 1, 2020 14:45 | December 2, 2020 03:00 | 12h 15m | 16,372 | 12K |
| 3 | October 20, 2020 11:30 | October 22, 2020 15:00 | 2d 3h | 9,117 | 31K |
| 4 | August 14, 2020 20:00 | August 17, 2020 03:15 | 2d 7h | 8,274 | 83K |
| 5 | June 28, 2020 10:15 | July 2, 2020 12:00 | 4d 1h | 6,219 | 41K |
| 6 | May 26, 2020 12:45 | May 28, 2020 10:15 | 1d 21h | 5,708 | 12K |
| 7 | May 25, 2020 19:00 | May 25, 2020 20:45 | 1h 45m | 5,706 | 1,480 |
| 8 | June 27, 2020 05:45 | June 28, 2020 01:30 | 19h 45m | 5,411 | 17K |
| 9 | December 9, 2020 14:00 | December 9, 2020 19:30 | 5h 30m | 5,168 | 8,916 |
| 10 | January 18, 2020 16:15 | January 18, 2020 19:30 | 3h 15m | 4,954 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 167 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2020 | 30 min | 0.43 | 27 min | 0.40 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 257,190 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. Ramsey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county