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2016 Blue Earth County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Blue Earth County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1837th 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 Blue Earth 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 11, 2016 02:30 | June 11, 2016 11:45 | 9h 15m | 4,498 | 3,958 |
| 2 | June 14, 2016 21:30 | June 15, 2016 02:00 | 4h 30m | 1,667 | 3,162 |
| 3 | June 19, 2016 11:15 | June 19, 2016 13:30 | 2h 15m | 1,631 | 2,594 |
| 4 | May 21, 2016 06:00 | May 21, 2016 09:30 | 3h 30m | 1,603 | 4,260 |
| 5 | February 6, 2016 05:00 | February 6, 2016 14:45 | 9h 45m | 1,339 | 3,280 |
| 6 | September 10, 2016 01:30 | September 10, 2016 09:30 | 8h | 577 | 3,749 |
| 7 | June 6, 2016 22:00 | June 7, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 401 | 802 |
| 8 | February 16, 2016 13:30 | February 16, 2016 17:45 | 4h 15m | 354 | 1,396 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 21:15 | February 16, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 354 | 355 |
| 10 | July 17, 2016 13:30 | July 17, 2016 14:30 | 1h | 351 | 351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Blue Earth 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.5 hrs | 1.20 | 58 min | 0.71 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Crystal - (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 ÷ 34,191 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. Blue Earth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blue Earth 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/blue-earth-county