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2016 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 2,246 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2053rd 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 Murray 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 17, 2016 11:15 | July 17, 2016 17:00 | 5h 45m | 440 | 988 |
| 2 | January 11, 2016 17:15 | January 11, 2016 19:30 | 2h 15m | 174 | 391 |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 20:00 | July 18, 2016 03:00 | 7h | 107 | 167 |
| 4 | September 5, 2016 06:00 | September 5, 2016 10:00 | 4h | 107 | 348 |
| 5 | September 5, 2016 13:30 | September 6, 2016 01:15 | 11h 45m | 10 | 107 |
| 6 | April 28, 2016 15:15 | April 28, 2016 16:45 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 00:15 | June 18, 2016 17:45 | 17h 30m | 8 | 121 |
| 8 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 17, 2016 01:45 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 9 | August 31, 2016 01:15 | August 31, 2016 01:45 | 30m | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | August 31, 2016 04:45 | August 31, 2016 08:00 | 3h 15m | 6 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.69 | 2.3 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county