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2025 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 1964th 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 Freeborn 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 | August 6, 2025 12:30 | August 7, 2025 19:45 | 1d 7h | 2,571 | 5,397 |
| 2 | August 9, 2025 12:45 | August 18, 2025 21:30 | 9d 8h | 2,142 | 17K |
| 3 | May 15, 2025 19:45 | May 16, 2025 19:15 | 23h 30m | 1,726 | 3,807 |
| 4 | August 30, 2025 12:30 | August 30, 2025 13:30 | 1h | 1,693 | 1,693 |
| 5 | September 9, 2025 14:30 | September 9, 2025 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,692 | 438 |
| 6 | July 28, 2025 03:30 | July 30, 2025 14:45 | 2d 11h | 1,501 | 5,820 |
| 7 | April 13, 2025 05:00 | April 13, 2025 06:30 | 1h 30m | 1,158 | 1,737 |
| 8 | November 23, 2025 20:30 | November 23, 2025 22:00 | 1h 30m | 689 | 899 |
| 9 | October 23, 2025 13:15 | October 24, 2025 00:30 | 11h 15m | 548 | 510 |
| 10 | December 15, 2025 14:30 | December 15, 2025 19:30 | 5h | 510 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 23 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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county