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2022 Olmsted County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Olmsted County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2577th 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 Olmsted 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 | July 23, 2022 18:30 | July 24, 2022 21:45 | 1d 3h | 4,862 | 25K |
| 2 | June 28, 2022 22:15 | June 29, 2022 18:45 | 20h 30m | 3,292 | 6,365 |
| 3 | November 15, 2022 15:30 | November 15, 2022 20:30 | 5h | 2,750 | 2,075 |
| 4 | October 24, 2022 05:15 | October 24, 2022 17:45 | 12h 30m | 2,697 | 5,102 |
| 5 | April 22, 2022 14:30 | April 22, 2022 19:00 | 4h 30m | 2,659 | 1,336 |
| 6 | August 7, 2022 00:15 | August 7, 2022 20:00 | 19h 45m | 2,566 | 5,818 |
| 7 | July 3, 2022 08:45 | July 3, 2022 14:30 | 5h 45m | 2,289 | 2,338 |
| 8 | July 4, 2022 15:00 | July 4, 2022 16:15 | 1h 15m | 2,283 | 2,854 |
| 9 | May 30, 2022 20:00 | May 31, 2022 20:30 | 1d | 2,219 | 7,895 |
| 10 | May 25, 2022 08:15 | May 25, 2022 09:30 | 1h 15m | 2,095 | 2,619 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 70 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Olmsted 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 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 75 min | 0.74 | 61 min | 0.66 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 | 68 min | 0.79 |
| Rochester Public Utilities | 2022 | 75 min | 0.85 | 37 min | 0.64 |
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 ÷ 76,519 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. Olmsted County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Olmsted 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/olmsted-county