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2022 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2335th 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 Houston 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 | January 21, 2022 20:45 | January 22, 2022 01:00 | 4h 15m | 2,887 | 8,591 |
| 2 | June 15, 2022 16:45 | June 15, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 2,887 | 1,444 |
| 3 | May 25, 2022 09:00 | May 25, 2022 17:00 | 8h | 79 | 613 |
| 4 | June 3, 2022 04:45 | June 3, 2022 11:00 | 6h 15m | 79 | 416 |
| 5 | July 23, 2022 20:30 | July 24, 2022 18:15 | 21h 45m | 70 | 750 |
| 6 | March 22, 2022 17:30 | March 22, 2022 18:30 | 1h | 67 | 65 |
| 7 | July 6, 2022 13:30 | July 6, 2022 14:15 | 45m | 57 | 29 |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 18:45 | June 16, 2022 22:15 | 3h 30m | 43 | 151 |
| 9 | February 1, 2022 13:45 | February 1, 2022 16:45 | 3h | 35 | 105 |
| 10 | December 21, 2022 14:30 | December 21, 2022 21:30 | 7h | 18 | 126 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county