County annual report · FIPS 27041
2016 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 171 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2332nd 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 Douglas 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 | July 12, 2016 22:30 | July 12, 2016 22:45 | 15m | 75 | 19 |
| 2 | February 8, 2016 11:00 | February 8, 2016 11:45 | 45m | 41 | 17 |
| 3 | December 13, 2016 21:00 | December 13, 2016 21:15 | 15m | 39 | 10 |
| 4 | December 26, 2016 07:15 | December 26, 2016 08:15 | 1h | 39 | 19 |
| 5 | December 26, 2016 09:45 | December 26, 2016 10:45 | 1h | 39 | 19 |
| 6 | June 12, 2016 22:15 | June 12, 2016 23:30 | 1h 15m | 18 | 16 |
| 7 | June 13, 2016 00:15 | June 13, 2016 02:00 | 1h 45m | 18 | 15 |
| 8 | July 21, 2016 14:45 | July 21, 2016 15:30 | 45m | 17 | 9 |
| 9 | December 29, 2016 20:45 | December 29, 2016 21:00 | 15m | 12 | 3 |
| 10 | May 9, 2016 20:45 | May 9, 2016 21:30 | 45m | 8 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 2.23 | 85 min | 1.35 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 89 min | 1.06 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.23 |
| City of Alexandria - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county