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2021 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,253 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2818th 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 Nicollet 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 | October 6, 2021 02:15 | October 6, 2021 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,836 | 4,489 |
| 2 | July 14, 2021 17:30 | July 14, 2021 19:00 | 1h 30m | 680 | 341 |
| 3 | March 7, 2021 23:15 | March 8, 2021 02:15 | 3h | 92 | 234 |
| 4 | June 18, 2021 11:45 | June 18, 2021 13:15 | 1h 30m | 84 | 126 |
| 5 | December 8, 2021 19:30 | December 8, 2021 20:00 | 30m | 84 | 42 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 19:15 | October 26, 2021 22:00 | 2h 45m | 83 | 174 |
| 7 | November 13, 2021 07:00 | November 13, 2021 13:30 | 6h 30m | 75 | 469 |
| 8 | November 21, 2021 15:30 | November 21, 2021 18:45 | 3h 15m | 63 | 171 |
| 9 | June 29, 2021 22:15 | June 30, 2021 00:00 | 1h 45m | 40 | 70 |
| 10 | September 1, 2021 05:30 | September 1, 2021 10:00 | 4h 30m | 40 | 180 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicollet 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 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county