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2016 Olmsted County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Olmsted County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 785 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2324th 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 Olmsted 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 6, 2016 03:45 | July 6, 2016 12:15 | 8h 30m | 426 | 559 |
| 2 | June 11, 2016 03:45 | June 11, 2016 06:45 | 3h | 50 | 113 |
| 3 | July 6, 2016 18:30 | July 6, 2016 21:15 | 2h 45m | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | June 23, 2016 14:00 | June 23, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | July 6, 2016 14:45 | July 6, 2016 17:00 | 2h 15m | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 03:00 | July 7, 2016 11:00 | 8h | 3 | 24 |
| 7 | May 4, 2016 12:30 | May 4, 2016 16:15 | 3h 45m | 2 | 8 |
| 8 | May 4, 2016 22:00 | May 5, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 17:15 | July 7, 2016 18:00 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | July 17, 2016 13:30 | July 17, 2016 17:00 | 3h 30m | 2 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 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 Olmsted 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.34 | 82 min | 0.79 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 1.12 | 38 min | 0.47 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.48 | 1.7 hrs | 1.27 |
| Rochester Public Utilities | 2016 | 59 min | 0.86 | 35 min | 0.56 |
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 ÷ 76,519 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. Olmsted County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Olmsted 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/olmsted-county