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2022 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 27 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2965th 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 Watonwan County, 2022
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 28, 2022 00:30 | April 28, 2022 00:45 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 2 | March 22, 2022 17:15 | March 22, 2022 19:30 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | May 6, 2022 16:30 | May 6, 2022 20:30 | 4h | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | June 13, 2022 21:15 | June 14, 2022 01:00 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | July 26, 2022 16:00 | July 26, 2022 18:30 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | July 29, 2022 00:00 | July 29, 2022 00:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | July 30, 2022 18:00 | July 30, 2022 18:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | September 9, 2022 01:00 | September 9, 2022 10:00 | 9h | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | December 14, 2022 05:00 | December 14, 2022 08:15 | 3h 15m | 1 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 0 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 | 70 min | 0.91 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county