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2025 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2305th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2025
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 4, 2025 23:00 | April 5, 2025 04:15 | 5h 15m | 2,191 | 3,836 |
| 2 | October 22, 2025 15:45 | October 22, 2025 22:15 | 6h 30m | 1,810 | 459 |
| 3 | September 22, 2025 02:15 | September 22, 2025 04:45 | 2h 30m | 1,553 | 3,012 |
| 4 | July 9, 2025 18:15 | July 9, 2025 20:30 | 2h 15m | 1,207 | 304 |
| 5 | June 10, 2025 21:30 | June 11, 2025 12:30 | 15h | 1,206 | 5,735 |
| 6 | October 23, 2025 11:45 | October 23, 2025 14:45 | 3h | 1,048 | 265 |
| 7 | August 18, 2025 12:45 | August 18, 2025 13:00 | 15m | 1,003 | 251 |
| 8 | May 16, 2025 13:00 | May 16, 2025 19:45 | 6h 45m | 920 | 471 |
| 9 | July 27, 2025 13:00 | July 27, 2025 21:45 | 8h 45m | 819 | 4,912 |
| 10 | August 20, 2025 08:45 | August 20, 2025 18:00 | 9h 15m | 819 | 1,400 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MN annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/minnesota/benton-county