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2021 Mower County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mower County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 4,280 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2875th 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 Mower 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 | December 16, 2021 01:45 | December 18, 2021 17:15 | 2d 15h | 473 | 3,815 |
| 2 | January 4, 2021 22:15 | January 4, 2021 22:30 | 15m | 136 | 34 |
| 3 | January 4, 2021 11:00 | January 4, 2021 15:15 | 4h 15m | 37 | 85 |
| 4 | May 27, 2021 16:15 | May 27, 2021 19:15 | 3h | 37 | 111 |
| 5 | July 13, 2021 13:00 | July 13, 2021 14:00 | 1h | 25 | 19 |
| 6 | January 4, 2021 20:15 | January 4, 2021 21:00 | 45m | 9 | 7 |
| 7 | October 5, 2021 14:00 | October 5, 2021 15:45 | 1h 45m | 7 | 12 |
| 8 | August 28, 2021 05:15 | August 28, 2021 07:30 | 2h 15m | 6 | 14 |
| 9 | June 23, 2021 18:00 | June 23, 2021 18:30 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 10 | July 28, 2021 04:00 | July 28, 2021 10:30 | 6h 30m | 4 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Mower 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.30 | 83 min | 0.85 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.10 | 76 min | 0.73 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2021 | 7.8 hrs | 1.25 | 60 min | 0.56 |
| City of Austin - (MN) | 2021 | 8 min | 0.23 | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,846 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. Mower County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mower 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/mower-county