County annual report · FIPS 27009
2016 Benton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1785th 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 Benton 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 | June 19, 2016 09:00 | June 19, 2016 12:00 | 3h | 2,465 | 7,389 |
| 2 | August 29, 2016 02:45 | August 29, 2016 05:15 | 2h 30m | 1,601 | 3,597 |
| 3 | June 22, 2016 20:45 | June 22, 2016 21:00 | 15m | 1,198 | 300 |
| 4 | July 28, 2016 21:15 | July 29, 2016 00:30 | 3h 15m | 843 | 1,322 |
| 5 | July 22, 2016 00:00 | July 22, 2016 05:00 | 5h | 776 | 1,554 |
| 6 | March 24, 2016 14:00 | March 24, 2016 17:00 | 3h | 183 | 373 |
| 7 | June 17, 2016 00:15 | June 17, 2016 02:45 | 2h 30m | 130 | 294 |
| 8 | June 25, 2016 12:30 | June 25, 2016 20:30 | 8h | 122 | 657 |
| 9 | August 10, 2016 23:30 | August 11, 2016 06:30 | 7h | 117 | 239 |
| 10 | July 4, 2016 19:15 | July 5, 2016 01:45 | 6h 30m | 113 | 735 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Benton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
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 ÷ 19,602 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county