County annual report · FIPS 27035
2016 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 264K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 615th 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 Crow Wing 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 10, 2016 21:00 | June 10, 2016 22:45 | 1h 45m | 6,224 | 2,584 |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 06:45 | July 27, 2016 09:45 | 6d 3h | 5,297 | 99K |
| 3 | November 18, 2016 16:30 | November 21, 2016 00:00 | 2d 7h | 2,782 | 59K |
| 4 | July 10, 2016 08:45 | July 12, 2016 07:45 | 1d 23h | 2,636 | 14K |
| 5 | August 4, 2016 07:45 | August 6, 2016 01:15 | 1d 17h | 2,264 | 8,135 |
| 6 | June 22, 2016 13:00 | June 22, 2016 18:15 | 5h 15m | 2,235 | 3,720 |
| 7 | March 16, 2016 13:00 | March 16, 2016 14:45 | 1h 45m | 2,234 | 718 |
| 8 | May 4, 2016 13:15 | May 4, 2016 13:45 | 30m | 2,233 | 804 |
| 9 | September 27, 2016 13:45 | September 27, 2016 21:45 | 8h | 1,962 | 15K |
| 10 | March 23, 2016 13:30 | March 23, 2016 18:00 | 4h 30m | 1,725 | 7,372 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 62 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Crow Wing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2016 | 13.8 hrs | 1.54 | 89 min | 0.76 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2016 | 8.1 hrs | 2.97 | 3.0 hrs | 2.24 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county