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2025 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 360K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2469th 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 Dakota 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 | July 1, 2025 11:45 | September 8, 2025 21:30 | 69d 9h | 11,695 | 172K |
| 2 | June 24, 2025 19:00 | June 27, 2025 20:30 | 3d 1h | 6,311 | 15K |
| 3 | June 12, 2025 11:15 | June 14, 2025 03:15 | 1d 16h | 5,806 | 5,038 |
| 4 | April 9, 2025 12:30 | April 23, 2025 21:15 | 14d 8h | 4,910 | 8,131 |
| 5 | September 21, 2025 20:30 | September 22, 2025 21:00 | 1d | 3,761 | 5,360 |
| 6 | January 6, 2025 13:45 | January 6, 2025 19:15 | 5h 30m | 3,077 | 4,066 |
| 7 | April 28, 2025 04:15 | April 28, 2025 07:15 | 3h | 2,920 | 8,748 |
| 8 | December 27, 2025 09:30 | December 27, 2025 11:15 | 1h 45m | 2,831 | 3,864 |
| 9 | March 4, 2025 23:15 | March 6, 2025 09:00 | 1d 9h | 2,681 | 21K |
| 10 | May 15, 2025 14:15 | May 17, 2025 01:30 | 1d 11h | 2,634 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 82 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2024 | 25 min | 0.35 | 17 min | 0.27 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county