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2016 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 841st 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 Chippewa 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 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 18, 2016 05:15 | 1d 3h | 2,613 | 16K |
| 2 | January 20, 2016 21:00 | January 20, 2016 22:45 | 1h 45m | 2,065 | 2,680 |
| 3 | August 29, 2016 22:00 | August 30, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 699 | 842 |
| 4 | January 17, 2016 12:45 | January 17, 2016 16:30 | 3h 45m | 438 | 791 |
| 5 | February 7, 2016 04:00 | February 7, 2016 11:30 | 7h 30m | 117 | 145 |
| 6 | July 14, 2016 20:15 | July 14, 2016 22:00 | 1h 45m | 117 | 176 |
| 7 | June 17, 2016 22:00 | June 19, 2016 05:15 | 1d 7h | 53 | 354 |
| 8 | April 21, 2016 02:45 | April 21, 2016 10:00 | 7h 15m | 39 | 190 |
| 9 | July 23, 2016 14:15 | July 23, 2016 17:45 | 3h 30m | 33 | 61 |
| 10 | July 14, 2016 22:45 | July 14, 2016 23:00 | 15m | 30 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 6 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | - | 32 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 2.97 | 71 min | 0.89 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county