County annual report · FIPS 27043
2021 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 850 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2904th 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 Faribault County, 2021
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 11, 2021 15:15 | June 11, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 402 | 402 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 04:15 | December 16, 2021 22:45 | 18h 30m | 75 | 415 |
| 3 | October 17, 2021 18:00 | October 17, 2021 19:30 | 1h 30m | 16 | 24 |
| 4 | January 25, 2021 00:30 | January 25, 2021 00:45 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | January 25, 2021 02:30 | January 25, 2021 05:15 | 2h 45m | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | March 29, 2021 22:45 | March 30, 2021 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | April 2, 2021 16:30 | April 2, 2021 16:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | July 1, 2021 12:30 | July 1, 2021 14:30 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 0.80 | 35 min | 0.39 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.77 | 68 min | 0.61 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.10 | 76 min | 0.73 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county