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2022 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2178th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 24, 2022 04:45 | June 25, 2022 02:45 | 22h | 4,677 | 13K |
| 2 | August 22, 2022 01:45 | August 22, 2022 06:00 | 4h 15m | 1,852 | 4,828 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 12:30 | May 13, 2022 00:15 | 11h 45m | 1,211 | 3,612 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 08:00 | May 31, 2022 12:15 | 1d 4h | 1,201 | 6,889 |
| 5 | September 13, 2022 15:30 | September 13, 2022 19:45 | 4h 15m | 641 | 179 |
| 6 | April 1, 2022 13:30 | April 1, 2022 15:30 | 2h | 374 | 466 |
| 7 | August 4, 2022 09:30 | August 4, 2022 12:45 | 3h 15m | 335 | 1,033 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 14:00 | December 16, 2022 21:00 | 1d 7h | 326 | 1,094 |
| 9 | July 19, 2022 14:45 | July 19, 2022 18:45 | 4h | 283 | 270 |
| 10 | December 14, 2022 11:45 | December 14, 2022 20:15 | 8h 30m | 217 | 679 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| East Central Energy | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 1.45 | 62 min | 0.70 |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/minnesota/benton-county