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2023 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 7,003 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2668th 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 Sibley 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 1, 2023 04:45 | April 1, 2023 21:00 | 16h 15m | 715 | 3,768 |
| 2 | April 13, 2023 21:45 | April 14, 2023 01:00 | 3h 15m | 325 | 241 |
| 3 | November 21, 2023 18:15 | November 22, 2023 00:30 | 6h 15m | 258 | 1,384 |
| 4 | September 30, 2023 01:15 | September 30, 2023 03:15 | 2h | 162 | 304 |
| 5 | June 24, 2023 16:15 | June 24, 2023 22:45 | 6h 30m | 62 | 280 |
| 6 | December 5, 2023 18:45 | December 5, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 62 | 93 |
| 7 | March 31, 2023 19:45 | April 1, 2023 03:00 | 7h 15m | 53 | 212 |
| 8 | June 4, 2023 21:30 | June 5, 2023 00:30 | 3h | 36 | 99 |
| 9 | June 29, 2023 16:30 | June 29, 2023 19:30 | 3h | 35 | 53 |
| 10 | September 13, 2023 14:30 | September 13, 2023 16:15 | 1h 45m | 31 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 Sibley 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county