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2023 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 673 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2917th 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 Faribault County, 2023
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2023 17:45 | January 4, 2023 19:15 | 1h 30m | 424 | 636 |
| 2 | February 19, 2023 23:15 | February 20, 2023 01:15 | 2h | 12 | 24 |
| 3 | April 18, 2023 19:15 | April 18, 2023 21:45 | 2h 30m | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | January 3, 2023 13:30 | January 3, 2023 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | January 3, 2023 23:30 | January 4, 2023 01:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | January 4, 2023 21:15 | January 4, 2023 21:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | January 17, 2023 20:15 | January 17, 2023 20:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | February 21, 2023 16:15 | February 21, 2023 17:30 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | May 15, 2023 21:45 | May 15, 2023 23:00 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2023 | 68 min | 0.90 | 68 min | 0.90 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| 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 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county