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2021 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2695th 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 Blue Earth 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 | August 10, 2021 08:30 | August 10, 2021 12:45 | 4h 15m | 1,777 | 3,395 |
| 2 | November 5, 2021 14:30 | November 5, 2021 18:45 | 4h 15m | 1,712 | 4,288 |
| 3 | October 17, 2021 18:00 | October 17, 2021 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,031 | 1,547 |
| 4 | May 19, 2021 06:00 | May 19, 2021 12:30 | 6h 30m | 934 | 2,355 |
| 5 | June 3, 2021 16:15 | June 3, 2021 17:00 | 45m | 931 | 698 |
| 6 | March 12, 2021 15:30 | March 12, 2021 18:00 | 2h 30m | 800 | 1,881 |
| 7 | May 20, 2021 18:00 | May 20, 2021 19:15 | 1h 15m | 739 | 491 |
| 8 | April 12, 2021 16:45 | April 12, 2021 19:45 | 3h | 522 | 540 |
| 9 | July 15, 2021 16:15 | July 15, 2021 18:30 | 2h 15m | 449 | 579 |
| 10 | September 17, 2021 07:45 | September 17, 2021 15:00 | 7h 15m | 421 | 923 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 83 min | 0.83 | 63 min | 0.59 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.77 | 68 min | 0.61 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.48 | 68 min | 0.97 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county