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2020 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,940 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2919th 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 Steele 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 | April 10, 2020 20:00 | April 11, 2020 00:15 | 4h 15m | 308 | 1,233 |
| 2 | May 20, 2020 01:15 | May 20, 2020 06:45 | 5h 30m | 203 | 733 |
| 3 | February 15, 2020 00:15 | February 15, 2020 01:45 | 1h 30m | 139 | 174 |
| 4 | September 21, 2020 03:15 | September 21, 2020 08:00 | 4h 45m | 56 | 266 |
| 5 | April 18, 2020 20:15 | April 18, 2020 21:00 | 45m | 44 | 32 |
| 6 | April 26, 2020 01:15 | April 26, 2020 06:30 | 5h 15m | 28 | 106 |
| 7 | March 9, 2020 15:00 | March 9, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 14 | 14 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 23:00 | October 13, 2020 00:45 | 1h 45m | 14 | 25 |
| 9 | November 8, 2020 22:30 | November 9, 2020 00:30 | 2h | 14 | 28 |
| 10 | November 30, 2020 01:30 | November 30, 2020 06:15 | 4h 45m | 14 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2020 | 81 min | 0.80 | 54 min | 0.56 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.25 | 62 min | 0.71 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2020 | 26 min | 0.37 | 26 min | 0.37 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county