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2024 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2499th 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 Waseca 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 | April 30, 2024 23:45 | May 1, 2024 02:30 | 2h 45m | 833 | 1,262 |
| 2 | January 31, 2024 13:45 | January 31, 2024 16:45 | 3h | 542 | 415 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 20:45 | January 9, 2024 21:15 | 30m | 415 | 208 |
| 4 | June 22, 2024 13:15 | June 23, 2024 05:15 | 16h | 346 | 2,730 |
| 5 | October 25, 2024 00:00 | October 25, 2024 04:45 | 4h 45m | 303 | 1,439 |
| 6 | May 5, 2024 15:45 | May 5, 2024 17:45 | 2h | 283 | 509 |
| 7 | August 5, 2024 23:30 | August 7, 2024 00:30 | 1d 1h | 258 | 2,154 |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 11:45 | May 24, 2024 17:00 | 5h 15m | 255 | 758 |
| 9 | June 26, 2024 04:30 | June 26, 2024 10:15 | 5h 45m | 253 | 951 |
| 10 | July 13, 2024 23:30 | July 14, 2024 02:15 | 2h 45m | 216 | 540 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 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 Waseca 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 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2018 | 76 min | 2.22 | 69 min | 2.20 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county