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2022 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,257 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2914th 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 Freeborn 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 | February 15, 2022 18:45 | February 15, 2022 22:45 | 4h | 277 | 1,108 |
| 2 | February 15, 2022 23:30 | February 16, 2022 03:30 | 4h | 268 | 991 |
| 3 | April 28, 2022 23:00 | April 29, 2022 02:00 | 3h | 11 | 33 |
| 4 | September 17, 2022 07:45 | September 17, 2022 15:45 | 8h | 10 | 49 |
| 5 | March 30, 2022 14:00 | March 30, 2022 17:00 | 3h | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | April 24, 2022 00:15 | April 24, 2022 06:15 | 6h | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | June 14, 2022 12:45 | June 14, 2022 17:00 | 4h 15m | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | January 4, 2022 20:00 | January 4, 2022 22:00 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | February 16, 2022 07:15 | February 16, 2022 11:30 | 4h 15m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | February 16, 2022 13:00 | February 16, 2022 16:15 | 3h 15m | 1 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county