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2020 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2286th 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 Sibley 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 29, 2020 12:45 | June 29, 2020 15:30 | 2h 45m | 1,245 | 1,023 |
| 2 | December 23, 2020 23:00 | December 24, 2020 20:00 | 21h | 1,167 | 4,359 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 17:30 | December 23, 2020 21:15 | 3h 45m | 619 | 1,252 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 20:45 | April 13, 2020 23:15 | 2h 30m | 558 | 1,259 |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 21:30 | August 26, 2020 02:30 | 5h | 491 | 1,742 |
| 6 | August 24, 2020 14:15 | August 24, 2020 15:00 | 45m | 302 | 227 |
| 7 | October 1, 2020 14:15 | October 1, 2020 17:30 | 3h 15m | 228 | 741 |
| 8 | March 30, 2020 13:45 | March 30, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 227 | 117 |
| 9 | July 18, 2020 07:45 | July 18, 2020 16:45 | 9h | 100 | 536 |
| 10 | March 29, 2020 06:00 | March 29, 2020 14:15 | 8h 15m | 79 | 269 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Sibley 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county