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2023 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2136th 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 Blue Earth 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 | July 28, 2023 03:00 | July 28, 2023 23:30 | 20h 30m | 10,374 | 36K |
| 2 | September 10, 2023 14:00 | September 10, 2023 16:00 | 2h | 9,225 | 7,690 |
| 3 | September 23, 2023 11:15 | September 23, 2023 14:15 | 3h | 5,046 | 6,317 |
| 4 | February 11, 2023 00:45 | February 11, 2023 04:30 | 3h 45m | 2,980 | 3,371 |
| 5 | May 31, 2023 15:15 | May 31, 2023 19:45 | 4h 30m | 2,412 | 1,622 |
| 6 | July 23, 2023 03:00 | July 23, 2023 07:15 | 4h 15m | 1,543 | 4,245 |
| 7 | October 1, 2023 01:30 | October 1, 2023 06:15 | 4h 45m | 1,224 | 3,074 |
| 8 | January 4, 2023 17:45 | January 4, 2023 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,048 | 1,576 |
| 9 | March 16, 2023 23:30 | March 17, 2023 02:15 | 2h 45m | 576 | 1,008 |
| 10 | July 13, 2023 15:45 | July 13, 2023 19:30 | 3h 45m | 516 | 389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 37 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 43 min | 0.43 | 43 min | 0.43 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2023 | 62 min | 0.71 | 43 min | 0.44 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 | 51 min | 0.69 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county