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2022 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,139 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2728th 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 Waseca 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 | February 15, 2022 18:45 | February 15, 2022 22:45 | 4h | 826 | 1,265 |
| 2 | March 23, 2022 09:00 | March 23, 2022 13:45 | 4h 45m | 755 | 1,747 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 01:00 | May 12, 2022 23:30 | 22h 30m | 404 | 1,271 |
| 4 | January 12, 2022 21:30 | January 12, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 203 | 102 |
| 5 | May 20, 2022 13:45 | May 20, 2022 17:00 | 3h 15m | 202 | 363 |
| 6 | August 6, 2022 23:30 | August 7, 2022 03:30 | 4h | 140 | 229 |
| 7 | May 25, 2022 15:00 | May 25, 2022 18:00 | 3h | 95 | 192 |
| 8 | July 29, 2022 20:45 | July 29, 2022 23:45 | 3h | 73 | 199 |
| 9 | January 2, 2022 03:45 | January 2, 2022 05:45 | 2h | 71 | 142 |
| 10 | April 23, 2022 23:45 | April 24, 2022 02:30 | 2h 45m | 57 | 73 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2018 | 76 min | 2.22 | 69 min | 2.20 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county