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2024 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2521st 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 Blue Earth 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 | February 27, 2024 15:00 | February 27, 2024 15:30 | 30m | 2,966 | 743 |
| 2 | August 26, 2024 17:00 | August 26, 2024 21:00 | 4h | 1,889 | 2,847 |
| 3 | July 13, 2024 23:00 | July 14, 2024 12:30 | 13h 30m | 1,885 | 14K |
| 4 | May 4, 2024 11:30 | May 4, 2024 14:00 | 2h 30m | 1,614 | 1,947 |
| 5 | August 5, 2024 22:15 | August 6, 2024 16:15 | 18h | 1,415 | 3,921 |
| 6 | July 1, 2024 12:15 | July 1, 2024 19:00 | 6h 45m | 1,195 | 2,416 |
| 7 | September 12, 2024 06:00 | September 12, 2024 07:45 | 1h 45m | 709 | 1,241 |
| 8 | March 7, 2024 06:00 | March 7, 2024 07:15 | 1h 15m | 668 | 834 |
| 9 | June 24, 2024 07:00 | June 25, 2024 03:15 | 20h 15m | 580 | 11K |
| 10 | January 8, 2024 16:45 | January 8, 2024 19:15 | 2h 30m | 456 | 576 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 24 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 61 min | 0.72 | 42 min | 0.48 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2024 | 41 min | 0.48 | 41 min | 0.48 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2024 | 72 min | 0.95 | 70 min | 0.93 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county