County annual report · FIPS 27093
2016 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 2,455 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2146th 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 Meeker 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 5, 2016 21:15 | July 6, 2016 01:00 | 3h 45m | 485 | 1,077 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 05:30 | July 17, 2016 06:00 | 30m | 457 | 229 |
| 3 | July 12, 2016 16:15 | July 12, 2016 21:30 | 5h 15m | 163 | 490 |
| 4 | June 24, 2016 01:45 | June 24, 2016 16:00 | 14h 15m | 39 | 403 |
| 5 | June 17, 2016 20:30 | June 17, 2016 22:30 | 2h | 28 | 22 |
| 6 | January 17, 2016 03:15 | January 17, 2016 05:30 | 2h 15m | 27 | 61 |
| 7 | July 6, 2016 04:45 | July 6, 2016 07:45 | 3h | 25 | 75 |
| 8 | July 6, 2016 12:15 | July 6, 2016 17:45 | 5h 30m | 25 | 12 |
| 9 | January 27, 2016 21:15 | January 27, 2016 22:15 | 1h | 18 | 18 |
| 10 | July 6, 2016 20:00 | July 6, 2016 20:30 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 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 Meeker 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 Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county