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2023 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,448 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2908th 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 Steele 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 | August 3, 2023 00:00 | August 3, 2023 04:45 | 4h 45m | 302 | 1,417 |
| 2 | June 2, 2023 15:45 | June 2, 2023 20:00 | 4h 15m | 278 | 621 |
| 3 | July 26, 2023 11:45 | July 26, 2023 14:00 | 2h 15m | 28 | 49 |
| 4 | August 10, 2023 17:00 | August 10, 2023 18:15 | 1h 15m | 28 | 28 |
| 5 | July 18, 2023 10:30 | July 18, 2023 11:45 | 1h 15m | 26 | 27 |
| 6 | October 3, 2023 19:45 | October 3, 2023 21:15 | 1h 30m | 19 | 29 |
| 7 | July 1, 2023 16:45 | July 1, 2023 19:15 | 2h 30m | 14 | 35 |
| 8 | May 3, 2023 01:15 | May 3, 2023 05:15 | 4h | 13 | 49 |
| 9 | July 26, 2023 15:30 | July 26, 2023 22:15 | 6h 45m | 10 | 20 |
| 10 | August 11, 2023 06:00 | August 11, 2023 10:15 | 4h 15m | 10 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2023 | 62 min | 0.71 | 43 min | 0.44 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 67 min | 0.68 | 67 min | 0.68 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2023 | 44 min | 0.61 | 14 min | 0.41 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county