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2020 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2669th 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 Stearns 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 03:45 | July 19, 2020 18:30 | 1d 14h | 4,268 | 12K |
| 2 | October 18, 2020 11:30 | October 18, 2020 16:15 | 4h 45m | 3,680 | 7,688 |
| 3 | August 23, 2020 23:00 | August 24, 2020 05:15 | 6h 15m | 3,252 | 9,103 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 23:30 | February 7, 2020 03:30 | 4h | 3,184 | 7,088 |
| 5 | August 31, 2020 08:15 | September 1, 2020 06:45 | 22h 30m | 2,528 | 6,575 |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 09:00 | June 10, 2020 15:30 | 6h 30m | 1,240 | 2,808 |
| 7 | October 12, 2020 03:00 | October 12, 2020 08:45 | 5h 45m | 1,169 | 3,323 |
| 8 | October 1, 2020 20:30 | October 2, 2020 03:30 | 7h | 1,022 | 2,826 |
| 9 | May 14, 2020 03:15 | May 14, 2020 14:00 | 10h 45m | 607 | 1,211 |
| 10 | September 24, 2020 08:30 | September 24, 2020 20:30 | 12h | 532 | 1,595 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 60 min | 0.70 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2020 | 29 min | 0.37 | 29 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county