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2024 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 358K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2452nd 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 Dakota 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 | August 26, 2024 23:00 | August 31, 2024 18:30 | 4d 19h | 7,421 | 140K |
| 2 | December 22, 2024 22:45 | December 22, 2024 23:00 | 15m | 6,228 | 1,557 |
| 3 | October 20, 2024 16:30 | October 20, 2024 20:30 | 4h | 6,145 | 1,552 |
| 4 | October 29, 2024 13:15 | December 3, 2024 21:00 | 35d 7h | 5,850 | 17K |
| 5 | December 4, 2024 12:15 | December 5, 2024 11:00 | 22h 45m | 5,849 | 4,481 |
| 6 | January 14, 2024 10:45 | January 14, 2024 22:00 | 11h 15m | 4,653 | 15K |
| 7 | April 6, 2024 15:15 | April 8, 2024 18:45 | 2d 3h | 4,381 | 3,834 |
| 8 | January 30, 2024 13:45 | January 30, 2024 22:45 | 9h | 4,094 | 2,253 |
| 9 | June 18, 2024 11:00 | August 14, 2024 19:00 | 57d 8h | 4,037 | 73K |
| 10 | October 19, 2024 17:45 | October 20, 2024 02:00 | 8h 15m | 2,975 | 1,669 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 81 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2024 | 25 min | 0.35 | 17 min | 0.27 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county