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2021 Le Sueur County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Le Sueur County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2403rd 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 Le Sueur 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 23, 2021 16:45 | August 23, 2021 17:00 | 15m | 4,917 | 1,229 |
| 2 | March 16, 2021 13:00 | March 16, 2021 16:30 | 3h 30m | 4,913 | 1,275 |
| 3 | December 16, 2021 01:45 | December 17, 2021 04:00 | 1d 2h | 2,553 | 4,087 |
| 4 | August 24, 2021 12:30 | August 24, 2021 18:45 | 6h 15m | 1,197 | 1,790 |
| 5 | April 12, 2021 18:45 | April 12, 2021 19:00 | 15m | 1,134 | 284 |
| 6 | December 8, 2021 12:00 | December 8, 2021 17:30 | 5h 30m | 762 | 968 |
| 7 | December 27, 2021 02:00 | December 27, 2021 08:30 | 6h 30m | 443 | 816 |
| 8 | June 8, 2021 13:15 | June 8, 2021 16:00 | 2h 45m | 366 | 732 |
| 9 | September 27, 2021 14:30 | September 27, 2021 15:30 | 1h | 335 | 252 |
| 10 | April 5, 2021 18:15 | April 5, 2021 19:15 | 1h | 286 | 246 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 23 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Le Sueur 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasota - (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 ÷ 11,683 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. Le Sueur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Le Sueur 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/le-sueur-county