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2024 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 3,471 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2915th 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 Freeborn 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 | April 30, 2024 23:45 | May 1, 2024 02:30 | 2h 45m | 274 | 754 |
| 2 | April 7, 2024 03:45 | April 7, 2024 11:30 | 7h 45m | 264 | 2,042 |
| 3 | September 3, 2024 23:30 | September 4, 2024 07:15 | 7h 45m | 50 | 317 |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 11:30 | June 17, 2024 16:30 | 5h | 46 | 197 |
| 5 | June 3, 2024 01:15 | June 3, 2024 04:15 | 3h | 12 | 33 |
| 6 | January 8, 2024 19:30 | January 8, 2024 20:30 | 1h | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | February 6, 2024 19:15 | February 6, 2024 20:30 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
| 8 | February 5, 2024 15:30 | February 5, 2024 17:00 | 1h 30m | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | January 31, 2024 17:30 | January 31, 2024 18:15 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | February 7, 2024 19:45 | February 7, 2024 21:30 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 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 Freeborn 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2024 | 65 min | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.71 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2024 | 41 min | 0.48 | 41 min | 0.48 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 86 min | 0.74 | 50 min | 0.47 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county