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2025 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 6,287 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2737th 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 Faribault 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 | May 19, 2025 11:30 | May 19, 2025 19:00 | 7h 30m | 513 | 655 |
| 2 | July 10, 2025 15:45 | July 10, 2025 16:00 | 15m | 407 | 102 |
| 3 | February 28, 2025 09:15 | February 28, 2025 10:30 | 1h 15m | 405 | 506 |
| 4 | March 14, 2025 08:15 | March 14, 2025 09:30 | 1h 15m | 405 | 506 |
| 5 | August 29, 2025 10:15 | September 2, 2025 19:00 | 4d 8h | 272 | 353 |
| 6 | May 15, 2025 16:45 | May 16, 2025 13:15 | 20h 30m | 215 | 238 |
| 7 | July 28, 2025 03:15 | July 28, 2025 17:30 | 14h 15m | 168 | 475 |
| 8 | June 8, 2025 18:45 | June 8, 2025 19:30 | 45m | 148 | 102 |
| 9 | August 20, 2025 18:00 | August 20, 2025 20:00 | 2h | 81 | 90 |
| 10 | June 16, 2025 01:45 | June 16, 2025 04:15 | 2h 30m | 75 | 167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 8 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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2024 | 65 min | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.71 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 77 min | 0.95 | 77 min | 0.95 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2024 | 41 min | 0.48 | 41 min | 0.48 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 86 min | 0.74 | 50 min | 0.47 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county