County annual report · FIPS 27025
2016 Chisago County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chisago County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1308th 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 Chisago 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 | August 30, 2016 02:30 | August 30, 2016 22:15 | 19h 45m | 3,909 | 7,763 |
| 2 | April 25, 2016 01:30 | April 25, 2016 18:00 | 16h 30m | 1,848 | 2,462 |
| 3 | July 21, 2016 09:15 | July 22, 2016 04:15 | 19h | 1,045 | 5,779 |
| 4 | June 21, 2016 11:30 | June 21, 2016 19:45 | 8h 15m | 963 | 6,249 |
| 5 | April 21, 2016 02:15 | April 21, 2016 13:00 | 10h 45m | 959 | 8,207 |
| 6 | June 25, 2016 20:30 | June 27, 2016 01:00 | 1d 4h | 836 | 8,258 |
| 7 | May 24, 2016 02:15 | May 24, 2016 07:15 | 5h | 626 | 165 |
| 8 | July 1, 2016 16:30 | July 1, 2016 21:30 | 5h | 314 | 319 |
| 9 | July 1, 2016 22:15 | July 2, 2016 09:00 | 10h 45m | 313 | 1,712 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 17:15 | July 24, 2016 02:15 | 9h | 146 | 263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 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 Chisago 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Connexus Energy | 2016 | 46 min | 0.45 | 30 min | 0.35 |
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 ÷ 23,550 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. Chisago County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chisago 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/chisago-county