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2022 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1940th 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 Washington 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 | August 3, 2022 04:15 | August 4, 2022 15:30 | 1d 11h | 11,022 | 42K |
| 2 | November 1, 2022 13:00 | November 1, 2022 22:00 | 9h | 6,844 | 1,783 |
| 3 | January 9, 2022 15:00 | January 9, 2022 16:30 | 1h 30m | 5,773 | 2,887 |
| 4 | July 20, 2022 12:45 | July 22, 2022 02:15 | 1d 13h | 5,767 | 7,805 |
| 5 | September 27, 2022 13:00 | September 27, 2022 15:00 | 2h | 5,580 | 2,792 |
| 6 | May 11, 2022 22:15 | May 13, 2022 19:00 | 1d 20h | 5,503 | 18K |
| 7 | August 22, 2022 11:30 | August 23, 2022 00:30 | 13h | 4,651 | 1,788 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 10:30 | December 17, 2022 22:15 | 2d 11h | 3,853 | 37K |
| 9 | February 7, 2022 15:15 | February 7, 2022 17:30 | 2h 15m | 3,770 | 2,829 |
| 10 | June 19, 2022 20:00 | June 22, 2022 02:15 | 2d 6h | 3,283 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 126 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 1.45 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Connexus Energy | 2022 | 80 min | 0.53 | 27 min | 0.29 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county