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2016 Freeborn County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Freeborn County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,324 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2239th 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 Freeborn 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 | April 19, 2016 06:15 | April 19, 2016 10:45 | 4h 30m | 283 | 1,205 |
| 2 | January 16, 2016 13:45 | January 16, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 18 | 59 |
| 3 | April 10, 2016 20:00 | April 10, 2016 22:30 | 2h 30m | 9 | 21 |
| 4 | January 9, 2016 01:45 | January 9, 2016 04:30 | 2h 45m | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | August 4, 2016 13:00 | August 4, 2016 13:15 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | January 4, 2016 17:00 | January 4, 2016 18:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | February 9, 2016 03:00 | February 9, 2016 06:30 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | February 17, 2016 00:00 | February 17, 2016 00:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | March 25, 2016 20:45 | March 25, 2016 23:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | May 25, 2016 10:15 | May 25, 2016 13:00 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 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 Freeborn 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 |
| 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 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,219 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. Freeborn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Freeborn 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/freeborn-county