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2024 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,973 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2932nd 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 Steele 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 5, 2024 15:45 | May 5, 2024 17:45 | 2h | 356 | 646 |
| 2 | July 13, 2024 23:30 | July 14, 2024 02:00 | 2h 30m | 304 | 760 |
| 3 | June 3, 2024 20:30 | June 3, 2024 23:00 | 2h 30m | 61 | 139 |
| 4 | May 21, 2024 22:00 | May 22, 2024 02:30 | 4h 30m | 22 | 82 |
| 5 | June 17, 2024 10:30 | June 17, 2024 14:45 | 4h 15m | 14 | 56 |
| 6 | October 25, 2024 00:15 | October 25, 2024 08:15 | 8h | 14 | 112 |
| 7 | January 3, 2024 16:00 | January 3, 2024 17:00 | 1h | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 12:00 | May 24, 2024 13:30 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 9 | February 8, 2024 17:00 | February 8, 2024 19:15 | 2h 15m | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | February 1, 2024 14:30 | February 1, 2024 16:00 | 1h 30m | 3 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2024 | 41 min | 0.48 | 41 min | 0.48 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 86 min | 0.74 | 50 min | 0.47 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2024 | 66 min | 0.86 | 27 min | 0.52 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county