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2023 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2233rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2023 19:00 | June 14, 2023 20:45 | 1h 45m | 5,337 | 5,337 |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 22:00 | June 24, 2023 07:45 | 9h 45m | 1,787 | 7,275 |
| 3 | July 17, 2023 22:45 | July 18, 2023 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1,572 | 2,358 |
| 4 | September 27, 2023 16:45 | September 27, 2023 17:15 | 30m | 1,550 | 577 |
| 5 | January 19, 2023 14:45 | January 19, 2023 15:15 | 30m | 1,479 | 385 |
| 6 | September 4, 2023 01:15 | September 4, 2023 06:45 | 5h 30m | 1,408 | 2,348 |
| 7 | June 16, 2023 19:30 | June 17, 2023 02:00 | 6h 30m | 1,286 | 2,499 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 14:30 | April 5, 2023 18:45 | 4h 15m | 1,038 | 2,589 |
| 9 | September 4, 2023 21:15 | September 5, 2023 03:15 | 6h | 813 | 1,913 |
| 10 | July 11, 2023 06:45 | July 11, 2023 14:15 | 7h 30m | 650 | 2,216 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/minnesota/benton-county