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2022 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2475th 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 Rice 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 | April 12, 2022 16:45 | April 13, 2022 21:00 | 1d 4h | 3,893 | 14K |
| 2 | October 24, 2022 19:15 | October 24, 2022 21:45 | 2h 30m | 3,881 | 2,659 |
| 3 | September 18, 2022 13:15 | September 18, 2022 17:45 | 4h 30m | 3,877 | 8,686 |
| 4 | March 15, 2022 14:45 | March 15, 2022 19:15 | 4h 30m | 1,426 | 797 |
| 5 | June 20, 2022 23:45 | June 22, 2022 00:30 | 1d | 1,266 | 3,074 |
| 6 | July 18, 2022 01:15 | July 18, 2022 04:45 | 3h 30m | 1,261 | 2,840 |
| 7 | November 14, 2022 16:30 | November 14, 2022 18:15 | 1h 45m | 382 | 669 |
| 8 | June 29, 2022 19:30 | June 29, 2022 20:00 | 30m | 311 | 156 |
| 9 | April 25, 2022 14:30 | April 25, 2022 15:00 | 30m | 291 | 146 |
| 10 | July 21, 2022 17:15 | July 21, 2022 18:30 | 1h 15m | 291 | 364 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 23 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rice 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.5 hrs | 1.01 | 45 min | 0.61 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.71 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2022 | 33 min | 0.70 | 23 min | 0.49 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county