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2025 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2588th 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 Nicollet 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 | March 11, 2025 07:30 | March 11, 2025 12:00 | 4h 30m | 2,533 | 8,647 |
| 2 | October 11, 2025 19:45 | October 11, 2025 22:30 | 2h 45m | 2,343 | 3,824 |
| 3 | January 24, 2025 15:45 | January 24, 2025 17:15 | 1h 30m | 1,989 | 1,424 |
| 4 | July 25, 2025 13:45 | July 25, 2025 14:30 | 45m | 1,045 | 784 |
| 5 | October 6, 2025 08:00 | October 6, 2025 10:15 | 2h 15m | 453 | 961 |
| 6 | December 28, 2025 16:15 | December 28, 2025 20:00 | 3h 45m | 204 | 499 |
| 7 | July 12, 2025 00:15 | July 12, 2025 02:45 | 2h 30m | 165 | 372 |
| 8 | September 27, 2025 20:45 | September 28, 2025 02:00 | 5h 15m | 163 | 624 |
| 9 | September 21, 2025 03:45 | September 21, 2025 09:45 | 6h | 140 | 840 |
| 10 | June 1, 2025 12:30 | June 1, 2025 15:15 | 2h 45m | 127 | 193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Nicollet 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county