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2023 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2397th 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 Stearns 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 | July 26, 2023 02:00 | July 27, 2023 09:15 | 1d 7h | 7,604 | 49K |
| 2 | August 11, 2023 12:30 | August 11, 2023 19:30 | 7h | 6,818 | 7,422 |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 22:30 | July 20, 2023 21:30 | 23h | 6,256 | 16K |
| 4 | July 17, 2023 22:45 | July 18, 2023 00:15 | 1h 30m | 4,953 | 4,949 |
| 5 | July 24, 2023 20:45 | July 25, 2023 05:45 | 9h | 3,612 | 2,203 |
| 6 | September 23, 2023 14:30 | September 24, 2023 22:00 | 1d 7h | 1,744 | 3,301 |
| 7 | December 16, 2023 15:45 | December 16, 2023 19:30 | 3h 45m | 790 | 665 |
| 8 | October 12, 2023 16:00 | October 12, 2023 20:00 | 4h | 774 | 975 |
| 9 | June 27, 2023 13:00 | June 28, 2023 00:30 | 11h 30m | 720 | 628 |
| 10 | April 30, 2023 14:30 | May 1, 2023 02:45 | 12h 15m | 707 | 1,829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 58 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2023 | 56 min | 0.58 | 56 min | 0.58 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2023 | 62 min | 0.76 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2023 | 77 min | 1.12 | 77 min | 1.12 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.11 | 90 min | 1.08 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county