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2020 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2567th 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 Scott 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 | October 24, 2020 14:30 | October 24, 2020 19:45 | 5h 15m | 3,816 | 6,051 |
| 2 | October 26, 2020 15:00 | October 26, 2020 15:30 | 30m | 3,814 | 954 |
| 3 | September 7, 2020 05:00 | September 7, 2020 19:30 | 14h 30m | 3,186 | 19K |
| 4 | August 4, 2020 14:30 | August 4, 2020 18:15 | 3h 45m | 2,567 | 1,912 |
| 5 | July 29, 2020 17:00 | July 30, 2020 02:00 | 9h | 2,520 | 2,570 |
| 6 | October 9, 2020 04:15 | October 9, 2020 11:30 | 7h 15m | 1,530 | 2,491 |
| 7 | June 2, 2020 23:45 | June 3, 2020 04:30 | 4h 45m | 1,416 | 2,403 |
| 8 | September 20, 2020 13:30 | September 20, 2020 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,328 | 3,303 |
| 9 | June 24, 2020 13:45 | June 24, 2020 17:00 | 3h 15m | 1,056 | 267 |
| 10 | June 10, 2020 01:45 | June 10, 2020 14:15 | 12h 30m | 1,055 | 1,314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2020 | 21 min | 0.32 | 19 min | 0.31 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2020 | 19 min | 0.30 | 19 min | 0.30 |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county