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2024 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 877K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1128th 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 Washington 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 | August 26, 2024 12:30 | September 2, 2024 01:15 | 6d 12h | 27,814 | 513K |
| 2 | June 4, 2024 12:30 | June 7, 2024 09:45 | 2d 21h | 18,726 | 44K |
| 3 | February 6, 2024 01:15 | February 6, 2024 02:00 | 45m | 11,398 | 7,124 |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 22:30 | June 20, 2024 01:15 | 2d 2h | 6,799 | 16K |
| 5 | May 21, 2024 06:45 | May 23, 2024 03:00 | 1d 20h | 6,522 | 15K |
| 6 | April 16, 2024 11:30 | April 17, 2024 23:45 | 1d 12h | 5,961 | 14K |
| 7 | May 30, 2024 13:00 | May 31, 2024 01:00 | 12h | 5,723 | 3,003 |
| 8 | June 17, 2024 09:15 | June 17, 2024 21:45 | 12h 30m | 5,618 | 14K |
| 9 | September 5, 2024 13:15 | September 6, 2024 09:15 | 20h | 5,223 | 9,224 |
| 10 | October 11, 2024 13:00 | October 11, 2024 15:00 | 2h | 5,197 | 1,301 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 119 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
| Connexus Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.85 | 30 min | 0.33 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county