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2022 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2339th 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 Stearns 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 16, 2022 18:00 | January 16, 2022 22:00 | 4h | 12,381 | 22K |
| 2 | February 11, 2022 15:15 | February 11, 2022 22:30 | 7h 15m | 4,971 | 4,352 |
| 3 | May 30, 2022 09:15 | June 1, 2022 02:45 | 1d 17h | 4,470 | 25K |
| 4 | May 12, 2022 12:45 | May 14, 2022 16:30 | 2d 3h | 3,959 | 37K |
| 5 | January 27, 2022 20:15 | January 27, 2022 20:45 | 30m | 2,921 | 1,461 |
| 6 | April 23, 2022 00:45 | April 23, 2022 13:45 | 13h | 2,752 | 7,313 |
| 7 | August 4, 2022 09:30 | August 4, 2022 14:30 | 5h | 1,036 | 4,665 |
| 8 | August 24, 2022 11:30 | August 24, 2022 14:30 | 3h | 1,028 | 517 |
| 9 | August 31, 2022 11:30 | August 31, 2022 11:45 | 15m | 1,024 | 256 |
| 10 | July 17, 2022 03:15 | July 17, 2022 11:30 | 8h 15m | 927 | 7,376 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 43 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2022 | 20.4 hrs | 3.08 | 67 min | 0.97 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2022 | 54 min | 0.64 | 29 min | 0.42 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.92 | 2.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 | 64 min | 0.56 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county