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2023 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 96 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2946th 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 Watonwan 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 11, 2023 23:30 | August 12, 2023 07:00 | 7h 30m | 24 | 71 |
| 2 | May 31, 2023 22:00 | May 31, 2023 23:30 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | May 3, 2023 17:45 | May 3, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | June 6, 2023 04:30 | June 6, 2023 08:30 | 4h | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | June 6, 2023 10:45 | June 6, 2023 11:15 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | August 30, 2023 13:30 | August 30, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | February 20, 2023 16:30 | February 20, 2023 18:30 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | February 23, 2023 22:00 | February 24, 2023 00:45 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | June 6, 2023 02:30 | June 6, 2023 02:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 20:45 | July 27, 2023 21:45 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 0 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 | 51 min | 0.69 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county