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2020 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2509th 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 Rice 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 18, 2020 08:45 | July 18, 2020 16:00 | 7h 15m | 1,325 | 3,449 |
| 2 | November 30, 2020 01:30 | November 30, 2020 06:15 | 4h 45m | 1,195 | 4,179 |
| 3 | March 9, 2020 13:15 | March 9, 2020 16:30 | 3h 15m | 1,193 | 1,271 |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 21:15 | June 22, 2020 01:45 | 4h 30m | 1,103 | 2,210 |
| 5 | September 6, 2020 05:15 | September 7, 2020 01:15 | 20h | 1,044 | 1,956 |
| 6 | June 1, 2020 22:15 | June 2, 2020 05:30 | 7h 15m | 767 | 3,465 |
| 7 | June 29, 2020 09:30 | June 30, 2020 04:15 | 18h 45m | 442 | 1,051 |
| 8 | July 14, 2020 02:30 | July 14, 2020 04:45 | 2h 15m | 376 | 846 |
| 9 | September 30, 2020 15:15 | September 30, 2020 20:15 | 5h | 358 | 1,092 |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 05:00 | August 25, 2020 06:15 | 1h 15m | 309 | 386 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 31 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 Rice 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county