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2021 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2514th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 6, 2021 12:00 | December 6, 2021 16:45 | 4h 45m | 1,972 | 3,525 |
| 2 | May 14, 2021 22:30 | May 15, 2021 08:00 | 9h 30m | 1,962 | 7,077 |
| 3 | September 22, 2021 06:45 | September 22, 2021 08:45 | 2h | 1,202 | 2,173 |
| 4 | August 24, 2021 11:00 | August 24, 2021 23:15 | 12h 15m | 1,171 | 504 |
| 5 | July 13, 2021 13:45 | July 13, 2021 20:00 | 6h 15m | 747 | 1,496 |
| 6 | June 4, 2021 18:30 | June 4, 2021 19:15 | 45m | 738 | 372 |
| 7 | August 28, 2021 17:15 | August 28, 2021 23:15 | 6h | 730 | 807 |
| 8 | November 16, 2021 18:45 | November 16, 2021 20:00 | 1h 15m | 447 | 559 |
| 9 | July 19, 2021 12:00 | July 20, 2021 05:00 | 17h | 392 | 714 |
| 10 | June 10, 2021 00:00 | June 10, 2021 11:15 | 11h 15m | 356 | 1,809 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| East Central Energy | 2021 | 65 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.60 |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/minnesota/benton-county