County annual report · FIPS 27055
2016 Houston County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Houston County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 6,399 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1808th 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 Houston 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 24, 2016 03:30 | March 24, 2016 12:00 | 8h 30m | 620 | 5,189 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 09:45 | July 17, 2016 14:15 | 4h 30m | 358 | 831 |
| 3 | January 17, 2016 19:30 | January 17, 2016 22:00 | 2h 30m | 48 | 108 |
| 4 | July 3, 2016 12:30 | July 3, 2016 15:00 | 2h 30m | 23 | 41 |
| 5 | March 3, 2016 19:15 | March 3, 2016 20:00 | 45m | 16 | 12 |
| 6 | February 23, 2016 16:30 | February 23, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 14 | 18 |
| 7 | March 14, 2016 15:15 | March 14, 2016 17:45 | 2h 30m | 11 | 21 |
| 8 | July 31, 2016 05:30 | July 31, 2016 10:15 | 4h 45m | 10 | 36 |
| 9 | March 17, 2016 13:15 | March 17, 2016 14:45 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 10 | June 26, 2016 07:45 | June 26, 2016 08:00 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 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 Houston 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| City of Caledonia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eitzen - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spring Grove | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,647 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county