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2020 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 579 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2933rd 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 Watonwan 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 3, 2020 04:30 | April 3, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 280 | 420 |
| 2 | July 3, 2020 23:30 | July 4, 2020 02:45 | 3h 15m | 37 | 120 |
| 3 | November 8, 2020 16:00 | November 8, 2020 18:30 | 2h 30m | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 01:30 | December 24, 2020 16:15 | 14h 45m | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | March 29, 2020 07:30 | March 29, 2020 11:00 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | June 3, 2020 02:45 | June 3, 2020 07:30 | 4h 45m | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | June 3, 2020 13:30 | June 3, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | September 25, 2020 14:15 | September 25, 2020 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | October 13, 2020 18:00 | October 13, 2020 18:45 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | October 18, 2020 14:15 | October 18, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.32 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.32 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county