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2023 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2189th 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 Dodge 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 26, 2023 07:45 | July 26, 2023 21:45 | 14h | 1,523 | 1,990 |
| 2 | June 19, 2023 21:00 | June 19, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 1,178 | 295 |
| 3 | August 12, 2023 00:00 | August 13, 2023 07:30 | 1d 7h | 1,166 | 4,730 |
| 4 | June 27, 2023 15:00 | June 27, 2023 19:00 | 4h | 820 | 1,045 |
| 5 | September 19, 2023 16:15 | September 19, 2023 20:45 | 4h 30m | 416 | 264 |
| 6 | July 18, 2023 13:00 | July 18, 2023 14:30 | 1h 30m | 358 | 358 |
| 7 | June 18, 2023 14:00 | June 18, 2023 17:00 | 3h | 258 | 430 |
| 8 | January 16, 2023 20:45 | January 16, 2023 23:00 | 2h 15m | 206 | 412 |
| 9 | June 10, 2023 12:30 | June 10, 2023 13:30 | 1h | 120 | 90 |
| 10 | July 16, 2023 22:00 | July 17, 2023 01:45 | 3h 45m | 120 | 420 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Dodge 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2023 | 62 min | 0.71 | 43 min | 0.44 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 67 min | 0.68 | 67 min | 0.68 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2023 | 89 min | 1.09 | 69 min | 1.00 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,199 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. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge 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/dodge-county