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2024 Olmsted County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Olmsted County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2439th 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 Olmsted 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 | May 21, 2024 22:30 | May 23, 2024 04:45 | 1d 6h | 7,643 | 37K |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 03:45 | April 3, 2024 19:45 | 16h | 3,635 | 13K |
| 3 | June 17, 2024 11:30 | June 18, 2024 19:45 | 1d 8h | 3,498 | 30K |
| 4 | April 9, 2024 00:45 | April 9, 2024 04:15 | 3h 30m | 2,309 | 1,913 |
| 5 | March 26, 2024 15:15 | March 26, 2024 17:15 | 2h | 2,303 | 2,304 |
| 6 | June 21, 2024 18:30 | June 22, 2024 04:00 | 9h 30m | 2,236 | 5,216 |
| 7 | August 12, 2024 11:30 | August 12, 2024 13:00 | 1h 30m | 2,097 | 2,908 |
| 8 | July 4, 2024 21:15 | July 5, 2024 07:00 | 9h 45m | 2,096 | 1,626 |
| 9 | August 30, 2024 21:15 | August 30, 2024 21:45 | 30m | 2,048 | 1,024 |
| 10 | December 28, 2024 10:00 | December 30, 2024 15:30 | 2d 5h | 1,998 | 1,059 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 59 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Olmsted 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 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 86 min | 0.74 | 50 min | 0.47 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 1.05 | 57 min | 0.59 |
| Rochester Public Utilities | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 | 43 min | 0.74 |
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 ÷ 76,519 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. Olmsted County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Olmsted 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/olmsted-county