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2025 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 32 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2977th 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 Watonwan County, 2025
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 22, 2025 18:45 | March 22, 2025 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | March 26, 2025 18:45 | March 26, 2025 19:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | April 9, 2025 19:15 | April 9, 2025 21:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | July 28, 2025 03:30 | July 28, 2025 14:30 | 11h | 1 | 11 |
| 5 | October 4, 2025 20:45 | October 5, 2025 09:15 | 12h 30m | 1 | 13 |
| 6 | November 21, 2025 15:30 | November 21, 2025 18:00 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | December 18, 2025 20:15 | December 18, 2025 21:15 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 0 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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 77 min | 0.95 | 77 min | 0.95 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2024 | 72 min | 0.95 | 70 min | 0.93 |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county