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Who serves Rice County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative and Dakota Electric Association ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric and Goodhue County Cooperative Electric Association also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Rice County, MN
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 312 customers, restored in ~3.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Rice County, MN
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
195 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~12,884 customers out in July 2016, restored after about 21 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Rice County
Communities in Rice County include Faribault, Northfield, Lonsdale, Dundas, Morristown, Nerstrand, Bridgewater and Cannon City. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
