County annual report · FIPS 27005
2016 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2046th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 9, 2016 00:00 | November 9, 2016 00:45 | 45m | 1,506 | 534 |
| 2 | July 10, 2016 04:00 | July 10, 2016 22:00 | 18h | 1,498 | 3,415 |
| 3 | August 4, 2016 06:45 | August 5, 2016 00:15 | 17h 30m | 383 | 1,484 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 05:45 | July 21, 2016 20:45 | 15h | 354 | 1,614 |
| 5 | August 30, 2016 15:15 | August 30, 2016 16:15 | 1h | 142 | 73 |
| 6 | August 30, 2016 17:15 | August 30, 2016 18:00 | 45m | 142 | 71 |
| 7 | November 18, 2016 18:45 | November 18, 2016 22:00 | 3h 15m | 125 | 243 |
| 8 | May 26, 2016 22:00 | May 26, 2016 23:00 | 1h | 120 | 30 |
| 9 | May 19, 2016 14:15 | May 19, 2016 15:15 | 1h | 111 | 111 |
| 10 | October 6, 2016 15:15 | October 6, 2016 16:45 | 1h 30m | 105 | 158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 10 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 3.27 | 1.8 hrs | 2.87 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 2.08 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 2.23 | 85 min | 1.35 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2016 | 17.3 hrs | 3.74 | 2.0 hrs | 1.57 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2016 | 10 min | 0.06 | 10 min | 0.06 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/minnesota/becker-county