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2025 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2287th 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 Stearns 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 | June 16, 2025 18:15 | June 18, 2025 06:15 | 1d 12h | 5,269 | 24K |
| 2 | October 4, 2025 13:00 | October 4, 2025 14:15 | 1h 15m | 4,705 | 4,704 |
| 3 | September 6, 2025 09:30 | September 6, 2025 20:00 | 10h 30m | 4,613 | 24K |
| 4 | August 28, 2025 12:00 | August 28, 2025 22:00 | 10h | 3,890 | 6,475 |
| 5 | April 26, 2025 11:15 | April 27, 2025 01:15 | 14h | 3,419 | 4,633 |
| 6 | August 31, 2025 20:00 | September 1, 2025 03:45 | 7h 45m | 3,254 | 1,922 |
| 7 | June 10, 2025 21:30 | June 11, 2025 03:30 | 6h | 3,146 | 7,912 |
| 8 | May 15, 2025 19:45 | May 17, 2025 23:15 | 2d 3h | 2,501 | 14K |
| 9 | April 4, 2025 23:00 | April 5, 2025 05:30 | 6h 30m | 2,496 | 3,942 |
| 10 | September 22, 2025 02:30 | September 22, 2025 05:30 | 3h | 2,297 | 5,752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 74 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2024 | 68 min | 0.52 | 52 min | 0.46 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2024 | 45 min | 0.37 | 24 min | 0.27 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.82 | 57 min | 0.61 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.48 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2018 | 3 min | 0.07 | 3 min | 0.07 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county