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2021 Ramsey County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ramsey County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 464K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2323rd 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 Ramsey 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 | April 6, 2021 04:15 | April 7, 2021 09:30 | 1d 5h | 15,858 | 39K |
| 2 | September 16, 2021 14:15 | September 21, 2021 00:45 | 4d 10h | 11,498 | 85K |
| 3 | June 9, 2021 12:30 | June 12, 2021 10:30 | 2d 22h | 8,291 | 26K |
| 4 | December 7, 2021 13:45 | December 7, 2021 18:15 | 4h 30m | 5,532 | 2,566 |
| 5 | November 5, 2021 14:30 | November 6, 2021 18:00 | 1d 3h | 4,069 | 1,577 |
| 6 | August 26, 2021 12:30 | August 29, 2021 01:00 | 2d 12h | 3,212 | 16K |
| 7 | June 4, 2021 09:30 | June 5, 2021 17:45 | 1d 8h | 3,163 | 4,193 |
| 8 | December 5, 2021 12:15 | December 6, 2021 06:00 | 17h 45m | 3,161 | 8,079 |
| 9 | May 22, 2021 17:00 | May 23, 2021 23:15 | 1d 6h | 3,077 | 2,838 |
| 10 | February 24, 2021 09:45 | February 24, 2021 13:45 | 4h | 2,950 | 4,304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 151 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2021 | 39 min | 0.50 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 257,190 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. Ramsey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county