County annual report · FIPS 27027
2016 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1966th 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 Clay 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 | May 13, 2016 11:00 | May 13, 2016 11:45 | 45m | 2,958 | 745 |
| 2 | May 3, 2016 01:00 | May 3, 2016 01:15 | 15m | 2,518 | 630 |
| 3 | February 13, 2016 06:15 | February 13, 2016 10:15 | 4h | 2,516 | 10K |
| 4 | May 5, 2016 02:00 | May 5, 2016 08:00 | 6h | 580 | 3,130 |
| 5 | February 15, 2016 19:30 | February 15, 2016 19:45 | 15m | 526 | 132 |
| 6 | May 8, 2016 14:15 | May 8, 2016 14:45 | 30m | 525 | 263 |
| 7 | April 22, 2016 11:30 | April 22, 2016 13:30 | 2h | 192 | 384 |
| 8 | June 15, 2016 17:15 | June 15, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 119 | 190 |
| 9 | April 5, 2016 00:30 | April 5, 2016 02:30 | 2h | 47 | 94 |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 07:45 | July 21, 2016 17:45 | 10h | 45 | 185 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 2.08 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 19 min | 0.50 | 19 min | 0.50 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2016 | 66 min | 1.36 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county