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2022 Mower County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mower County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,139 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2934th 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 Mower 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 | August 7, 2022 00:00 | August 7, 2022 03:30 | 3h 30m | 400 | 264 |
| 2 | September 21, 2022 06:00 | September 21, 2022 07:15 | 1h 15m | 136 | 170 |
| 3 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | May 31, 2022 14:45 | 17h 15m | 107 | 338 |
| 4 | May 19, 2022 16:30 | May 19, 2022 17:00 | 30m | 33 | 11 |
| 5 | June 11, 2022 07:15 | June 11, 2022 09:15 | 2h | 33 | 66 |
| 6 | June 24, 2022 21:30 | June 24, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 33 | 25 |
| 7 | October 24, 2022 05:30 | October 24, 2022 07:45 | 2h 15m | 33 | 60 |
| 8 | June 14, 2022 01:15 | June 14, 2022 08:30 | 7h 15m | 10 | 59 |
| 9 | February 1, 2022 15:45 | February 1, 2022 16:15 | 30m | 7 | 4 |
| 10 | October 11, 2022 16:15 | October 11, 2022 19:45 | 3h 30m | 7 | 22 |
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 Mower 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 75 min | 0.74 | 61 min | 0.66 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 | 68 min | 0.79 |
| City of Austin - (MN) | 2022 | 13 min | 0.20 | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,846 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. Mower County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mower 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/mower-county