County annual report · FIPS 27037
2016 Dakota County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dakota County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2049th 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 Dakota 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 26, 2016 07:45 | June 26, 2016 21:30 | 13h 45m | 4,998 | 5,612 |
| 2 | August 17, 2016 03:30 | August 17, 2016 19:15 | 15h 45m | 4,120 | 4,949 |
| 3 | April 27, 2016 17:00 | April 27, 2016 18:45 | 1h 45m | 4,065 | 3,056 |
| 4 | May 22, 2016 04:15 | May 22, 2016 16:00 | 11h 45m | 3,655 | 1,893 |
| 5 | June 6, 2016 07:45 | June 7, 2016 08:00 | 1d | 3,299 | 6,692 |
| 6 | August 26, 2016 15:00 | August 26, 2016 17:30 | 2h 30m | 2,101 | 3,155 |
| 7 | May 21, 2016 08:00 | May 21, 2016 10:15 | 2h 15m | 1,813 | 2,192 |
| 8 | July 12, 2016 15:15 | July 12, 2016 21:30 | 6h 15m | 1,427 | 1,090 |
| 9 | June 21, 2016 15:30 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 10h 45m | 1,191 | 2,634 |
| 10 | January 8, 2016 09:15 | January 8, 2016 10:45 | 1h 30m | 1,068 | 1,602 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 74 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Dakota 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 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 1.12 | 38 min | 0.47 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2016 | 33 min | 0.44 | 21 min | 0.31 |
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 ÷ 193,827 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. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota 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/dakota-county