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2016 Lyon County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lyon County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 9,624 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1883rd 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 Lyon 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 | June 10, 2016 13:45 | June 10, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 768 | 1,380 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 05:15 | July 17, 2016 07:15 | 2h | 640 | 1,280 |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 03:00 | July 17, 2016 04:30 | 1h 30m | 639 | 959 |
| 4 | August 4, 2016 11:15 | August 4, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 639 | 1,119 |
| 5 | August 10, 2016 11:15 | August 10, 2016 13:45 | 2h 30m | 639 | 1,538 |
| 6 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 17, 2016 02:15 | 45m | 549 | 411 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 00:00 | June 19, 2016 10:15 | 1d 10h | 168 | 1,137 |
| 8 | May 8, 2016 08:15 | May 8, 2016 09:15 | 1h | 153 | 116 |
| 9 | May 31, 2016 07:30 | May 31, 2016 09:00 | 1h 30m | 153 | 192 |
| 10 | December 7, 2016 20:15 | December 7, 2016 21:00 | 45m | 152 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 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 Lyon 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.90 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | - | 32 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Marshall - (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 ÷ 12,443 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. Lyon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lyon 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/lyon-county