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2016 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 669th 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 Pine 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 20, 2016 01:30 | June 21, 2016 05:30 | 1d 4h | 2,061 | 15K |
| 2 | June 13, 2016 19:00 | June 13, 2016 21:45 | 2h 45m | 1,906 | 708 |
| 3 | December 14, 2016 12:30 | December 14, 2016 15:00 | 2h 30m | 1,901 | 2,046 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 08:30 | July 24, 2016 15:15 | 3d 6h | 1,747 | 32K |
| 5 | July 11, 2016 17:30 | July 12, 2016 21:15 | 1d 3h | 1,304 | 6,941 |
| 6 | June 25, 2016 21:45 | June 27, 2016 03:30 | 1d 5h | 1,162 | 7,917 |
| 7 | July 25, 2016 18:45 | July 26, 2016 21:15 | 1d 2h | 746 | 7,336 |
| 8 | November 23, 2016 13:30 | November 23, 2016 18:15 | 4h 45m | 649 | 955 |
| 9 | May 24, 2016 12:00 | May 24, 2016 14:15 | 2h 15m | 648 | 811 |
| 10 | November 18, 2016 19:00 | November 19, 2016 19:45 | 1d | 330 | 1,322 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Pine 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Lake Country Power | 2016 | 40.6 hrs | 4.58 | 4.1 hrs | 2.16 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county