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2024 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2543rd 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 Stearns 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 18, 2024 00:45 | June 19, 2024 09:15 | 1d 8h | 4,997 | 15K |
| 2 | June 13, 2024 00:15 | June 14, 2024 01:30 | 1d 1h | 4,638 | 20K |
| 3 | September 22, 2024 07:15 | September 22, 2024 12:15 | 5h | 4,361 | 11K |
| 4 | December 2, 2024 14:45 | December 2, 2024 20:30 | 5h 45m | 3,452 | 3,506 |
| 5 | August 6, 2024 16:00 | August 7, 2024 00:45 | 8h 45m | 3,251 | 9,946 |
| 6 | October 6, 2024 05:15 | October 7, 2024 01:00 | 19h 45m | 2,756 | 820 |
| 7 | October 25, 2024 07:00 | October 25, 2024 19:30 | 12h 30m | 2,754 | 11K |
| 8 | August 4, 2024 01:30 | August 5, 2024 00:00 | 22h 30m | 2,507 | 4,422 |
| 9 | October 31, 2024 15:45 | November 1, 2024 03:45 | 12h | 2,318 | 6,519 |
| 10 | November 1, 2024 20:15 | November 1, 2024 23:45 | 3h 30m | 2,247 | 1,687 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 47 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2024 | 68 min | 0.52 | 52 min | 0.46 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2024 | 45 min | 0.37 | 24 min | 0.27 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.82 | 57 min | 0.61 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county