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2023 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2699th 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 Scott 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 | June 24, 2023 16:30 | June 25, 2023 01:15 | 8h 45m | 8,889 | 16K |
| 2 | February 13, 2023 17:45 | February 14, 2023 15:30 | 21h 45m | 3,626 | 8,604 |
| 3 | May 25, 2023 05:45 | May 25, 2023 12:45 | 7h | 1,797 | 8,300 |
| 4 | June 12, 2023 14:00 | June 12, 2023 16:45 | 2h 45m | 641 | 675 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 22:00 | July 4, 2023 00:45 | 2h 45m | 592 | 887 |
| 6 | August 22, 2023 20:15 | August 22, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 498 | 429 |
| 7 | July 27, 2023 19:30 | July 28, 2023 09:15 | 13h 45m | 472 | 544 |
| 8 | September 22, 2023 14:30 | September 22, 2023 18:00 | 3h 30m | 460 | 703 |
| 9 | May 25, 2023 13:30 | May 25, 2023 15:45 | 2h 15m | 347 | 93 |
| 10 | February 8, 2023 16:45 | February 8, 2023 17:30 | 45m | 345 | 259 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2023 | 53 min | 0.49 | 19 min | 0.28 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2023 | 5 min | 0.10 | 5 min | 0.10 |
| New Prague Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county