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2016 Kandiyohi County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kandiyohi County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1957th 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 Kandiyohi 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 14, 2016 20:45 | July 14, 2016 22:00 | 1h 15m | 794 | 794 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 17, 2016 06:45 | 5h 15m | 794 | 3,936 |
| 3 | February 7, 2016 04:00 | February 7, 2016 11:30 | 7h 30m | 793 | 4,617 |
| 4 | October 14, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 00:15 | 1h 45m | 632 | 482 |
| 5 | July 14, 2016 22:45 | July 14, 2016 23:15 | 30m | 297 | 75 |
| 6 | June 17, 2016 20:30 | June 18, 2016 09:45 | 13h 15m | 295 | 1,346 |
| 7 | June 3, 2016 23:00 | June 4, 2016 10:00 | 11h | 45 | 484 |
| 8 | July 5, 2016 21:30 | July 5, 2016 23:45 | 2h 15m | 43 | 97 |
| 9 | June 29, 2016 16:30 | June 29, 2016 18:00 | 1h 30m | 32 | 41 |
| 10 | June 6, 2016 22:00 | June 7, 2016 03:15 | 5h 15m | 31 | 156 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 6 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 Kandiyohi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 3.27 | 1.8 hrs | 2.87 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.23 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 2.97 | 71 min | 0.89 |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities | 2016 | 26 min | 0.40 | 26 min | 0.40 |
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 ÷ 20,235 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. Kandiyohi County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kandiyohi 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/kandiyohi-county