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2022 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,669 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2923rd 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 Steele 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 | March 23, 2022 09:15 | March 23, 2022 11:30 | 2h 15m | 308 | 693 |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 01:30 | May 12, 2022 06:00 | 4h 30m | 124 | 44 |
| 3 | May 31, 2022 00:30 | May 31, 2022 21:30 | 21h | 72 | 264 |
| 4 | January 15, 2022 07:00 | January 15, 2022 07:15 | 15m | 46 | 12 |
| 5 | February 8, 2022 05:15 | February 8, 2022 08:15 | 3h | 35 | 89 |
| 6 | June 13, 2022 15:45 | June 13, 2022 18:30 | 2h 45m | 32 | 85 |
| 7 | May 11, 2022 12:45 | May 11, 2022 19:00 | 6h 15m | 23 | 73 |
| 8 | March 30, 2022 11:15 | March 30, 2022 13:45 | 2h 30m | 19 | 23 |
| 9 | August 28, 2022 13:30 | August 28, 2022 16:15 | 2h 45m | 19 | 45 |
| 10 | April 12, 2022 19:00 | April 13, 2022 15:45 | 20h 45m | 16 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.71 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 75 min | 0.74 | 61 min | 0.66 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2022 | 4 min | 0.11 | 4 min | 0.11 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county