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2024 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2758th 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 Nicollet 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 | December 27, 2024 23:45 | December 28, 2024 04:15 | 4h 30m | 1,331 | 1,442 |
| 2 | June 17, 2024 10:15 | June 17, 2024 15:45 | 5h 30m | 1,046 | 2,098 |
| 3 | June 5, 2024 23:45 | June 6, 2024 01:45 | 2h | 1,045 | 1,307 |
| 4 | August 22, 2024 03:45 | August 22, 2024 05:15 | 1h 30m | 1,044 | 1,566 |
| 5 | February 27, 2024 15:00 | February 27, 2024 15:30 | 30m | 684 | 172 |
| 6 | October 23, 2024 03:00 | October 23, 2024 10:15 | 7h 15m | 406 | 2,432 |
| 7 | November 24, 2024 14:45 | November 24, 2024 22:15 | 7h 30m | 143 | 873 |
| 8 | May 13, 2024 09:45 | May 13, 2024 14:30 | 4h 45m | 103 | 260 |
| 9 | February 4, 2024 21:15 | February 5, 2024 00:30 | 3h 15m | 92 | 183 |
| 10 | July 19, 2024 12:00 | July 19, 2024 21:15 | 9h 15m | 86 | 300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 8 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 Nicollet 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county