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2023 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 4,226 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2785th 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 Houston 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 31, 2023 11:30 | May 31, 2023 13:00 | 1h 30m | 2,816 | 1,409 |
| 2 | July 5, 2023 08:30 | July 5, 2023 18:45 | 10h 15m | 136 | 852 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 12:45 | June 18, 2023 15:15 | 2h 30m | 102 | 153 |
| 4 | July 4, 2023 03:30 | July 5, 2023 02:30 | 23h | 69 | 510 |
| 5 | September 4, 2023 12:30 | September 4, 2023 15:15 | 2h 45m | 68 | 120 |
| 6 | August 12, 2023 01:15 | August 12, 2023 12:00 | 10h 45m | 40 | 225 |
| 7 | February 4, 2023 00:15 | February 4, 2023 07:15 | 7h | 34 | 230 |
| 8 | June 17, 2023 13:00 | June 17, 2023 14:30 | 1h 30m | 34 | 51 |
| 9 | August 27, 2023 13:00 | August 27, 2023 13:30 | 30m | 34 | 17 |
| 10 | June 4, 2023 13:00 | June 4, 2023 14:30 | 1h 30m | 27 | 30 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2023 | 58 min | 0.66 | 52 min | 0.61 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county