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2021 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2526th 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 Scott 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 | March 16, 2021 16:15 | March 16, 2021 16:30 | 15m | 22,804 | 5,701 |
| 2 | August 23, 2021 13:45 | August 23, 2021 20:00 | 6h 15m | 19,101 | 5,447 |
| 3 | February 10, 2021 07:15 | February 10, 2021 20:00 | 12h 45m | 6,682 | 9,203 |
| 4 | September 17, 2021 08:15 | September 19, 2021 19:30 | 2d 11h | 5,679 | 25K |
| 5 | August 24, 2021 08:30 | August 25, 2021 16:45 | 1d 8h | 2,205 | 3,190 |
| 6 | November 6, 2021 00:30 | November 6, 2021 05:30 | 5h | 2,017 | 9,581 |
| 7 | December 16, 2021 02:15 | December 16, 2021 19:45 | 17h 30m | 1,115 | 2,416 |
| 8 | June 4, 2021 15:00 | June 4, 2021 16:15 | 1h 15m | 1,027 | 1,284 |
| 9 | June 28, 2021 14:30 | June 28, 2021 17:00 | 2h 30m | 1,014 | 1,268 |
| 10 | April 7, 2021 06:45 | April 7, 2021 11:45 | 5h | 967 | 1,963 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2021 | 58 min | 0.68 | 21 min | 0.33 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2021 | 7 min | 0.11 | 7 min | 0.11 |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county