County annual report · FIPS 27053
2016 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 770K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1661st 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 Hennepin 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 1, 2016 22:30 | July 8, 2016 11:00 | 6d 12h | 42,370 | 217K |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 20:15 | July 25, 2016 07:15 | 1d 11h | 19,622 | 50K |
| 3 | July 1, 2016 02:15 | July 1, 2016 21:30 | 19h 15m | 8,891 | 11K |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 23:30 | July 22, 2016 15:30 | 16h | 7,226 | 13K |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 04:30 | June 7, 2016 05:45 | 2d 1h | 5,482 | 7,821 |
| 6 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 25, 2016 21:45 | 2d 11h | 5,480 | 24K |
| 7 | June 8, 2016 15:00 | June 10, 2016 11:15 | 1d 20h | 5,358 | 14K |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 03:00 | June 22, 2016 22:45 | 19h 45m | 5,278 | 13K |
| 9 | May 19, 2016 09:30 | May 19, 2016 21:30 | 12h | 5,030 | 7,196 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 03:00 | July 19, 2016 19:45 | 16h 45m | 4,215 | 8,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 219 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hennepin 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2016 | 46 min | 0.45 | 30 min | 0.35 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 0.68 | 44 min | 0.49 |
| City of Elk River | 2016 | 28 min | 0.24 | 28 min | 0.24 |
| City of Anoka | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 624,985 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. Hennepin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hennepin 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/hennepin-county