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2025 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2247th 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 Blue Earth 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 | October 10, 2025 18:00 | October 12, 2025 00:00 | 1d 6h | 8,688 | 10K |
| 2 | January 24, 2025 15:30 | January 24, 2025 17:00 | 1h 30m | 7,188 | 5,234 |
| 3 | December 18, 2025 21:45 | December 19, 2025 03:00 | 5h 15m | 3,871 | 1,828 |
| 4 | March 11, 2025 07:30 | March 11, 2025 11:15 | 3h 45m | 3,266 | 7,839 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 01:45 | March 15, 2025 06:00 | 4h 15m | 1,829 | 6,569 |
| 6 | March 5, 2025 01:45 | March 5, 2025 22:30 | 20h 45m | 1,816 | 5,778 |
| 7 | April 28, 2025 15:15 | April 28, 2025 16:30 | 1h 15m | 1,353 | 341 |
| 8 | June 28, 2025 14:30 | June 28, 2025 17:30 | 3h | 1,334 | 2,092 |
| 9 | November 26, 2025 03:45 | December 4, 2025 12:00 | 8d 8h | 1,054 | 4,230 |
| 10 | September 27, 2025 05:30 | September 27, 2025 07:45 | 2h 15m | 891 | 2,005 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 42 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2024 | 72 min | 0.95 | 70 min | 0.93 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county