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2024 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2247th 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 Rice 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 2, 2024 22:45 | June 3, 2024 23:15 | 1d | 3,195 | 7,982 |
| 2 | August 29, 2024 19:30 | August 30, 2024 20:15 | 1d | 2,747 | 6,815 |
| 3 | May 13, 2024 14:45 | May 13, 2024 17:45 | 3h | 2,643 | 1,333 |
| 4 | October 24, 2024 23:30 | October 25, 2024 10:45 | 11h 15m | 1,841 | 4,615 |
| 5 | September 18, 2024 23:45 | September 19, 2024 03:45 | 4h | 1,655 | 2,386 |
| 6 | February 23, 2024 09:15 | February 23, 2024 12:15 | 3h | 1,470 | 4,141 |
| 7 | February 24, 2024 14:45 | February 24, 2024 17:30 | 2h 45m | 1,469 | 3,306 |
| 8 | February 24, 2024 19:00 | February 24, 2024 20:45 | 1h 45m | 1,469 | 735 |
| 9 | February 24, 2024 22:45 | February 25, 2024 00:00 | 1h 15m | 1,469 | 368 |
| 10 | July 25, 2024 20:30 | July 26, 2024 00:00 | 3h 30m | 1,376 | 4,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 39 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Rice 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2024 | 41 min | 0.48 | 41 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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county