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2023 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 887K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1018th 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 Washington 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 19, 2023 10:30 | July 21, 2023 03:15 | 1d 16h | 22,519 | 70K |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 22:45 | April 4, 2023 14:15 | 3d 15h | 22,040 | 440K |
| 3 | May 31, 2023 13:00 | June 1, 2023 07:15 | 18h 15m | 19,680 | 11K |
| 4 | August 6, 2023 13:15 | August 7, 2023 00:15 | 11h | 7,050 | 31K |
| 5 | September 29, 2023 20:45 | October 2, 2023 02:15 | 2d 5h | 6,900 | 37K |
| 6 | February 1, 2023 18:15 | February 1, 2023 22:30 | 4h 15m | 6,609 | 4,991 |
| 7 | March 2, 2023 14:30 | March 2, 2023 17:30 | 3h | 6,427 | 1,634 |
| 8 | July 24, 2023 07:00 | July 26, 2023 01:45 | 1d 18h | 6,220 | 13K |
| 9 | February 2, 2023 01:15 | February 2, 2023 01:30 | 15m | 5,596 | 1,399 |
| 10 | July 26, 2023 06:45 | July 27, 2023 13:00 | 1d 6h | 4,612 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 143 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Connexus Energy | 2023 | 55 min | 0.62 | 26 min | 0.29 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county