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2024 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 7,824 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2666th 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 Houston 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 | June 6, 2024 01:45 | June 6, 2024 09:15 | 7h 30m | 1,568 | 2,714 |
| 2 | May 21, 2024 23:45 | May 22, 2024 18:15 | 18h 30m | 1,519 | 1,313 |
| 3 | September 24, 2024 18:15 | September 24, 2024 19:15 | 1h | 1,402 | 454 |
| 4 | October 14, 2024 02:15 | October 14, 2024 04:30 | 2h 15m | 1,402 | 2,207 |
| 5 | October 31, 2024 17:45 | October 31, 2024 19:00 | 1h 15m | 112 | 68 |
| 6 | September 15, 2024 00:45 | September 15, 2024 04:45 | 4h | 73 | 256 |
| 7 | June 7, 2024 23:30 | June 8, 2024 00:00 | 30m | 68 | 34 |
| 8 | March 19, 2024 00:30 | March 19, 2024 02:45 | 2h 15m | 63 | 142 |
| 9 | October 25, 2024 02:00 | October 25, 2024 10:30 | 8h 30m | 33 | 90 |
| 10 | February 2, 2024 13:45 | February 2, 2024 15:00 | 1h 15m | 31 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2024 | 85 min | 0.70 | 64 min | 0.60 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county