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2024 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2094th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 12, 2024 03:00 | January 12, 2024 11:15 | 8h 15m | 5,542 | 16K |
| 2 | August 4, 2024 01:30 | August 5, 2024 06:45 | 1d 5h | 2,554 | 8,315 |
| 3 | June 13, 2024 00:45 | June 13, 2024 23:00 | 22h 15m | 2,296 | 11K |
| 4 | March 16, 2024 12:15 | March 16, 2024 18:00 | 5h 45m | 1,786 | 5,365 |
| 5 | August 16, 2024 17:45 | August 16, 2024 19:30 | 1h 45m | 1,527 | 383 |
| 6 | September 22, 2024 07:30 | September 22, 2024 11:30 | 4h | 785 | 2,559 |
| 7 | May 7, 2024 20:45 | May 7, 2024 23:15 | 2h 30m | 778 | 819 |
| 8 | February 15, 2024 03:30 | February 15, 2024 06:45 | 3h 15m | 560 | 846 |
| 9 | December 2, 2024 15:45 | December 2, 2024 19:00 | 3h 15m | 404 | 555 |
| 10 | July 14, 2024 05:00 | July 15, 2024 00:45 | 19h 45m | 393 | 2,772 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 18 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/minnesota/benton-county