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2023 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 569K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1978th 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 Dakota 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 | April 1, 2023 02:00 | April 6, 2023 19:00 | 5d 17h | 21,324 | 214K |
| 2 | November 15, 2023 21:45 | November 16, 2023 01:30 | 3h 45m | 20,486 | 15K |
| 3 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | July 8, 2023 00:00 | 26d 10h | 18,971 | 53K |
| 4 | October 10, 2023 01:15 | October 10, 2023 09:30 | 8h 15m | 13,612 | 36K |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 22:15 | July 27, 2023 00:30 | 1d 2h | 6,656 | 23K |
| 6 | August 3, 2023 13:15 | August 4, 2023 01:30 | 12h 15m | 5,344 | 3,035 |
| 7 | October 24, 2023 07:30 | October 24, 2023 22:30 | 15h | 5,258 | 4,737 |
| 8 | August 3, 2023 01:30 | August 3, 2023 01:45 | 15m | 4,815 | 1,204 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 13:15 | July 21, 2023 02:15 | 2d 13h | 4,344 | 16K |
| 10 | January 3, 2023 17:30 | January 6, 2023 00:15 | 2d 6h | 3,800 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 123 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2023 | 53 min | 0.49 | 19 min | 0.28 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county