County annual report · FIPS 27103
2016 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 6,068 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2072nd 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 Nicollet 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 14, 2016 21:30 | June 15, 2016 02:00 | 4h 30m | 675 | 1,019 |
| 2 | June 25, 2016 04:00 | June 25, 2016 08:00 | 4h | 590 | 2,360 |
| 3 | June 10, 2016 21:00 | June 12, 2016 00:15 | 1d 3h | 479 | 1,339 |
| 4 | March 16, 2016 22:45 | March 16, 2016 23:30 | 45m | 318 | 239 |
| 5 | June 24, 2016 13:00 | June 24, 2016 13:45 | 45m | 92 | 47 |
| 6 | January 13, 2016 01:00 | January 13, 2016 03:00 | 2h | 77 | 154 |
| 7 | July 20, 2016 06:00 | July 20, 2016 09:45 | 3h 45m | 76 | 285 |
| 8 | June 17, 2016 17:00 | June 17, 2016 17:15 | 15m | 72 | 18 |
| 9 | August 11, 2016 11:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 2h 45m | 52 | 35 |
| 10 | April 12, 2016 08:30 | April 12, 2016 11:15 | 2h 45m | 34 | 64 |
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 Nicollet 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 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county