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2021 Wabasha County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wabasha County, MN went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1309th 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 Wabasha 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 15, 2021 00:30 | October 15, 2021 05:00 | 4h 30m | 3,694 | 3,701 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 01:15 | December 18, 2021 13:45 | 2d 12h | 2,151 | 39K |
| 3 | September 27, 2021 20:30 | September 27, 2021 23:15 | 2h 45m | 624 | 158 |
| 4 | June 8, 2021 22:00 | June 9, 2021 09:00 | 11h | 495 | 2,849 |
| 5 | December 7, 2021 22:45 | December 8, 2021 00:30 | 1h 45m | 268 | 431 |
| 6 | July 29, 2021 04:30 | July 30, 2021 03:15 | 22h 45m | 149 | 1,392 |
| 7 | December 9, 2021 17:30 | December 9, 2021 18:45 | 1h 15m | 137 | 141 |
| 8 | April 7, 2021 15:00 | April 7, 2021 19:30 | 4h 30m | 90 | 398 |
| 9 | July 26, 2021 22:15 | July 29, 2021 00:15 | 2d 2h | 90 | 337 |
| 10 | July 7, 2021 08:00 | July 7, 2021 14:15 | 6h 15m | 78 | 470 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Wabasha 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2021 | 7.8 hrs | 1.25 | 60 min | 0.56 |
| City of Lake City - (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 ÷ 10,731 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. Wabasha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wabasha 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/wabasha-county