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2022 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 2,386 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2866th 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 Faribault 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 01:15 | May 12, 2022 06:15 | 5h | 423 | 2,098 |
| 2 | March 6, 2022 06:15 | March 6, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 420 | 105 |
| 3 | March 7, 2022 14:15 | March 7, 2022 14:30 | 15m | 420 | 105 |
| 4 | November 27, 2022 21:15 | November 28, 2022 03:15 | 6h | 11 | 56 |
| 5 | January 19, 2022 15:30 | January 19, 2022 17:30 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | January 7, 2022 22:00 | January 7, 2022 22:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | May 15, 2022 14:15 | May 15, 2022 17:45 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | June 11, 2022 17:30 | June 11, 2022 19:30 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | June 28, 2022 00:00 | June 28, 2022 03:00 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | July 6, 2022 02:30 | July 6, 2022 03:45 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 3 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2022 | 73 min | 0.76 | 73 min | 0.76 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.71 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 75 min | 0.74 | 61 min | 0.66 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county