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2016 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1688th 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 McLeod 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 21, 2016 10:45 | July 21, 2016 17:00 | 6h 15m | 1,354 | 1,054 |
| 2 | August 4, 2016 14:15 | August 4, 2016 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1,205 | 1,401 |
| 3 | September 5, 2016 08:15 | September 5, 2016 11:15 | 3h | 1,192 | 430 |
| 4 | September 17, 2016 03:00 | September 17, 2016 04:15 | 1h 15m | 1,192 | 1,490 |
| 5 | April 15, 2016 21:00 | April 16, 2016 00:45 | 3h 45m | 932 | 3,271 |
| 6 | April 16, 2016 01:45 | April 16, 2016 02:15 | 30m | 932 | 466 |
| 7 | August 10, 2016 12:00 | August 10, 2016 14:30 | 2h 30m | 689 | 1,712 |
| 8 | May 23, 2016 21:00 | May 24, 2016 05:00 | 8h | 688 | 4,029 |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 09:15 | July 21, 2016 10:00 | 45m | 657 | 481 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 16:30 | July 23, 2016 20:45 | 4h 15m | 571 | 1,861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McLeod 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 0.68 | 44 min | 0.49 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county