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2025 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2230th 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 Rice 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 6, 2025 01:15 | July 6, 2025 06:15 | 5h | 2,188 | 2,715 |
| 2 | August 16, 2025 11:45 | August 16, 2025 21:45 | 10h | 1,907 | 11K |
| 3 | July 23, 2025 14:15 | July 23, 2025 20:45 | 6h 30m | 1,834 | 4,132 |
| 4 | August 18, 2025 07:15 | August 18, 2025 08:45 | 1h 30m | 1,829 | 2,744 |
| 5 | November 26, 2025 04:45 | November 26, 2025 09:45 | 5h | 1,825 | 5,541 |
| 6 | July 28, 2025 02:45 | July 30, 2025 23:15 | 2d 20h | 1,270 | 24K |
| 7 | June 19, 2025 21:00 | June 20, 2025 04:45 | 7h 45m | 501 | 1,257 |
| 8 | June 15, 2025 17:30 | June 15, 2025 21:30 | 4h | 451 | 950 |
| 9 | March 5, 2025 03:00 | March 5, 2025 21:30 | 18h 30m | 444 | 1,694 |
| 10 | June 20, 2025 09:00 | June 20, 2025 16:45 | 7h 45m | 325 | 992 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 27 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rice 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 |
| 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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county