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2020 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 8,051 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2646th 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 Waseca 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 | March 12, 2020 16:00 | March 12, 2020 18:00 | 2h | 807 | 1,467 |
| 2 | April 10, 2020 20:00 | April 11, 2020 00:15 | 4h 15m | 491 | 818 |
| 3 | June 17, 2020 06:30 | June 17, 2020 17:00 | 10h 30m | 244 | 1,070 |
| 4 | January 23, 2020 15:15 | January 23, 2020 20:00 | 4h 45m | 230 | 530 |
| 5 | August 31, 2020 08:30 | August 31, 2020 15:15 | 6h 45m | 212 | 481 |
| 6 | September 18, 2020 01:45 | September 18, 2020 03:15 | 1h 30m | 188 | 232 |
| 7 | August 15, 2020 02:30 | August 15, 2020 06:30 | 4h | 186 | 493 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 15:45 | July 27, 2020 18:45 | 3h | 80 | 220 |
| 9 | July 18, 2020 09:00 | July 18, 2020 22:15 | 13h 15m | 71 | 172 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 17:30 | June 30, 2020 00:00 | 6h 30m | 69 | 161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2018 | 76 min | 2.22 | 69 min | 2.20 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county