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2021 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 12 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2962nd 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 Watonwan County, 2021
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 28, 2021 16:15 | January 28, 2021 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | February 23, 2021 11:45 | February 23, 2021 15:15 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | April 7, 2021 19:15 | April 7, 2021 20:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | October 24, 2021 17:15 | October 24, 2021 17:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | October 26, 2021 18:00 | October 26, 2021 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | November 26, 2021 17:00 | November 26, 2021 19:45 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.48 | 68 min | 0.97 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county