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2022 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2344th 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 Blue Earth 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 | May 12, 2022 00:30 | May 13, 2022 19:15 | 1d 18h | 5,847 | 29K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 17:15 | January 3, 2022 18:15 | 1h | 2,969 | 1,519 |
| 3 | August 17, 2022 20:15 | August 17, 2022 23:00 | 2h 45m | 2,476 | 2,149 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 15:00 | May 31, 2022 22:30 | 1d 7h | 1,821 | 4,441 |
| 5 | April 9, 2022 00:15 | April 9, 2022 09:00 | 8h 45m | 1,786 | 3,788 |
| 6 | March 6, 2022 06:15 | March 6, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 1,038 | 260 |
| 7 | March 7, 2022 14:15 | March 7, 2022 14:30 | 15m | 1,038 | 260 |
| 8 | August 2, 2022 22:30 | August 3, 2022 00:00 | 1h 30m | 943 | 472 |
| 9 | September 19, 2022 19:45 | September 19, 2022 22:45 | 3h | 942 | 2,086 |
| 10 | December 16, 2022 01:00 | December 16, 2022 02:45 | 1h 45m | 871 | 1,088 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 35 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.5 hrs | 1.01 | 45 min | 0.61 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.71 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 | 70 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county