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2021 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2653rd 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 Stearns 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 | May 25, 2021 07:00 | May 25, 2021 08:30 | 1h 30m | 5,112 | 5,846 |
| 2 | March 10, 2021 17:00 | March 10, 2021 22:00 | 5h | 3,713 | 4,225 |
| 3 | April 6, 2021 01:45 | April 6, 2021 10:45 | 9h | 3,648 | 6,635 |
| 4 | August 28, 2021 16:45 | August 30, 2021 04:30 | 1d 11h | 3,331 | 26K |
| 5 | February 12, 2021 22:30 | February 13, 2021 04:00 | 5h 30m | 2,880 | 2,173 |
| 6 | April 9, 2021 10:45 | April 9, 2021 14:45 | 4h | 2,749 | 4,810 |
| 7 | September 16, 2021 18:00 | September 17, 2021 06:15 | 12h 15m | 2,305 | 1,401 |
| 8 | February 26, 2021 15:45 | February 26, 2021 20:00 | 4h 15m | 1,343 | 1,691 |
| 9 | May 14, 2021 23:00 | May 15, 2021 01:00 | 2h | 509 | 764 |
| 10 | March 24, 2021 15:15 | March 24, 2021 16:30 | 1h 15m | 489 | 611 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2021 | 35 min | 0.48 | 31 min | 0.48 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county