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2025 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 9,199 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2866th 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 Steele 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 29, 2025 04:15 | July 30, 2025 07:00 | 1d 2h | 570 | 4,562 |
| 2 | July 8, 2025 17:45 | July 8, 2025 23:30 | 5h 45m | 309 | 1,771 |
| 3 | August 25, 2025 15:15 | August 25, 2025 15:45 | 30m | 308 | 154 |
| 4 | March 30, 2025 04:15 | March 30, 2025 10:00 | 5h 45m | 306 | 1,760 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 01:30 | March 15, 2025 17:30 | 16h | 63 | 179 |
| 6 | July 19, 2025 08:45 | July 19, 2025 14:00 | 5h 15m | 59 | 180 |
| 7 | August 12, 2025 19:15 | August 12, 2025 20:00 | 45m | 56 | 42 |
| 8 | June 25, 2025 22:30 | June 26, 2025 04:15 | 5h 45m | 43 | 172 |
| 9 | May 15, 2025 21:30 | May 16, 2025 16:45 | 19h 15m | 37 | 119 |
| 10 | April 28, 2025 22:45 | April 29, 2025 02:15 | 3h 30m | 8 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 4 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 Steele 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 |
| 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 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2024 | 66 min | 0.86 | 27 min | 0.52 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county