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2021 Brown County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Brown County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,237 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2922nd 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 Brown 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 | September 17, 2021 07:15 | September 17, 2021 08:00 | 45m | 146 | 110 |
| 2 | December 14, 2021 08:15 | December 14, 2021 09:15 | 1h | 110 | 46 |
| 3 | December 16, 2021 05:30 | December 16, 2021 15:15 | 9h 45m | 110 | 1,021 |
| 4 | April 28, 2021 21:30 | April 29, 2021 00:00 | 2h 30m | 13 | 33 |
| 5 | May 23, 2021 03:30 | May 23, 2021 09:00 | 5h 30m | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | December 16, 2021 22:00 | December 16, 2021 23:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | April 1, 2021 18:00 | April 1, 2021 21:00 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | April 27, 2021 18:45 | April 27, 2021 22:00 | 3h 15m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | June 11, 2021 20:00 | June 11, 2021 22:45 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | August 27, 2021 08:00 | August 27, 2021 10:00 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 Brown 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 |
| 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 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 | 3.4 hrs | 1.07 |
| New Ulm Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sleepy Eye Public Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springfield Public Utils Comm - (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 ÷ 12,921 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county