County annual report · FIPS 27039
2016 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 7,226 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1689th 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 Dodge 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 | March 2, 2016 04:15 | March 2, 2016 11:15 | 7h | 709 | 2,738 |
| 2 | July 6, 2016 01:45 | July 7, 2016 22:45 | 1d 21h | 301 | 2,503 |
| 3 | January 27, 2016 18:15 | January 27, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 156 | 78 |
| 4 | March 26, 2016 13:45 | March 26, 2016 18:30 | 4h 45m | 144 | 573 |
| 5 | August 11, 2016 08:00 | August 11, 2016 13:45 | 5h 45m | 141 | 181 |
| 6 | May 26, 2016 08:30 | May 26, 2016 14:15 | 5h 45m | 63 | 158 |
| 7 | August 6, 2016 16:00 | August 6, 2016 19:00 | 3h | 58 | 160 |
| 8 | July 19, 2016 13:30 | July 19, 2016 14:00 | 30m | 33 | 17 |
| 9 | January 15, 2016 15:00 | January 15, 2016 17:45 | 2h 45m | 25 | 51 |
| 10 | March 15, 2016 17:45 | March 15, 2016 20:30 | 2h 45m | 22 | 61 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Dodge 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.34 | 82 min | 0.79 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 1.12 | 38 min | 0.47 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.48 | 1.7 hrs | 1.27 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,199 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. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge 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/dodge-county