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2016 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 37 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2335th 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 Faribault County, 2016
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 11, 2016 02:30 | June 11, 2016 11:45 | 9h 15m | 19 | 27 |
| 2 | January 14, 2016 15:30 | January 14, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | January 20, 2016 23:00 | January 20, 2016 23:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | June 11, 2016 16:30 | June 11, 2016 21:15 | 4h 45m | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | July 20, 2016 14:30 | July 20, 2016 15:45 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | August 16, 2016 04:45 | August 16, 2016 07:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
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 Faribault 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2016 | 89 min | 0.86 | 89 min | 0.86 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2016 | 4 min | 0.05 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault 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/faribault-county