County annual report · FIPS 27019
2021 Carver County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Carver County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2088th 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 Carver 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 | March 16, 2021 16:15 | March 16, 2021 16:30 | 15m | 8,076 | 2,019 |
| 2 | August 23, 2021 11:45 | August 23, 2021 23:00 | 11h 15m | 7,102 | 1,898 |
| 3 | August 24, 2021 11:15 | August 25, 2021 01:15 | 14h | 3,194 | 7,992 |
| 4 | December 22, 2021 06:45 | December 23, 2021 02:15 | 19h 30m | 2,429 | 6,119 |
| 5 | July 15, 2021 18:45 | July 16, 2021 01:00 | 6h 15m | 2,210 | 5,533 |
| 6 | April 11, 2021 23:45 | April 12, 2021 02:45 | 3h | 2,182 | 6,546 |
| 7 | September 17, 2021 08:00 | September 19, 2021 01:30 | 1d 17h | 2,151 | 7,552 |
| 8 | September 26, 2021 21:00 | September 27, 2021 01:30 | 4h 30m | 1,860 | 5,292 |
| 9 | August 26, 2021 18:45 | August 27, 2021 23:15 | 1d 4h | 1,669 | 5,537 |
| 10 | March 29, 2021 20:30 | March 30, 2021 14:30 | 18h | 1,634 | 4,913 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Carver 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2021 | 35 min | 0.48 | 31 min | 0.48 |
| City of Chaska - (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 ÷ 43,054 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. Carver County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carver 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/carver-county