County annual report · FIPS 27063
2016 Jackson County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jackson County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 920 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2181st 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 Jackson 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 23, 2016 23:30 | July 24, 2016 06:00 | 6h 30m | 159 | 151 |
| 2 | October 7, 2016 17:00 | October 7, 2016 18:00 | 1h | 75 | 75 |
| 3 | May 26, 2016 12:00 | May 26, 2016 13:30 | 1h 30m | 71 | 102 |
| 4 | August 19, 2016 02:30 | August 19, 2016 03:45 | 1h 15m | 71 | 86 |
| 5 | April 7, 2016 15:30 | April 7, 2016 16:15 | 45m | 56 | 42 |
| 6 | August 5, 2016 04:45 | August 5, 2016 08:30 | 3h 45m | 20 | 75 |
| 7 | April 4, 2016 02:00 | April 4, 2016 03:00 | 1h | 19 | 19 |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 10:00 | June 22, 2016 14:15 | 4h 15m | 18 | 51 |
| 9 | June 11, 2016 01:00 | June 11, 2016 05:00 | 4h | 17 | 68 |
| 10 | June 7, 2016 16:15 | June 7, 2016 18:45 | 2h 30m | 16 | 34 |
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 Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.90 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| City of Alpha - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Jackson - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lakefield - (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 ÷ 5,169 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county