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2023 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,154 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2925th 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 Freeborn 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 | May 5, 2023 22:00 | May 6, 2023 00:45 | 2h 45m | 275 | 756 |
| 2 | April 29, 2023 17:30 | April 29, 2023 21:45 | 4h 15m | 38 | 90 |
| 3 | October 10, 2023 15:15 | October 10, 2023 17:00 | 1h 45m | 24 | 36 |
| 4 | May 30, 2023 14:15 | May 30, 2023 18:00 | 3h 45m | 22 | 55 |
| 5 | August 29, 2023 22:30 | August 30, 2023 04:00 | 5h 30m | 20 | 53 |
| 6 | May 25, 2023 20:45 | May 25, 2023 22:30 | 1h 45m | 12 | 18 |
| 7 | January 20, 2023 19:00 | January 20, 2023 20:30 | 1h 30m | 11 | 17 |
| 8 | July 19, 2023 19:15 | July 19, 2023 21:15 | 2h | 8 | 11 |
| 9 | January 10, 2023 16:15 | January 10, 2023 17:45 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 10 | October 3, 2023 22:45 | October 4, 2023 01:45 | 3h | 7 | 9 |
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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county