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2022 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 301K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2483rd 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 Dakota 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 16, 2022 08:30 | June 16, 2022 09:45 | 1h 15m | 20,538 | 11K |
| 2 | June 29, 2022 06:00 | June 29, 2022 06:15 | 15m | 17,679 | 4,420 |
| 3 | January 11, 2022 14:30 | January 24, 2022 22:00 | 13d 7h | 9,994 | 14K |
| 4 | August 24, 2022 18:00 | August 25, 2022 04:45 | 10h 45m | 9,941 | 10K |
| 5 | August 2, 2022 13:30 | August 8, 2022 19:30 | 6d 6h | 8,611 | 49K |
| 6 | August 1, 2022 11:45 | August 2, 2022 08:45 | 21h | 8,413 | 12K |
| 7 | June 21, 2022 17:30 | June 22, 2022 21:45 | 1d 4h | 5,053 | 1,395 |
| 8 | March 29, 2022 13:45 | March 31, 2022 15:00 | 2d 1h | 4,971 | 5,384 |
| 9 | March 17, 2022 17:45 | March 17, 2022 23:15 | 5h 30m | 4,967 | 1,250 |
| 10 | February 18, 2022 20:00 | February 19, 2022 05:45 | 9h 45m | 4,031 | 6,279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 90 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2022 | 33 min | 0.70 | 23 min | 0.49 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county