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2023 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2705th 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 Rice 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 19, 2023 18:30 | April 19, 2023 20:00 | 1h 30m | 4,734 | 2,373 |
| 2 | July 26, 2023 10:30 | July 26, 2023 21:00 | 10h 30m | 2,445 | 4,339 |
| 3 | April 11, 2023 07:30 | April 11, 2023 18:30 | 11h | 778 | 781 |
| 4 | August 22, 2023 23:15 | August 23, 2023 03:15 | 4h | 712 | 1,247 |
| 5 | January 4, 2023 07:00 | January 4, 2023 20:45 | 13h 45m | 568 | 2,553 |
| 6 | September 24, 2023 03:15 | September 24, 2023 15:30 | 12h 15m | 424 | 1,888 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 22:15 | June 30, 2023 07:30 | 9h 15m | 381 | 124 |
| 8 | July 30, 2023 11:15 | July 30, 2023 12:00 | 45m | 377 | 142 |
| 9 | July 30, 2023 05:15 | July 30, 2023 07:30 | 2h 15m | 339 | 763 |
| 10 | January 24, 2023 19:00 | January 25, 2023 00:30 | 5h 30m | 316 | 893 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Rice 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2023 | 62 min | 0.71 | 43 min | 0.44 |
| 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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county