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2016 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 4,964 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1742nd 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 Pipestone 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 23, 2016 10:45 | June 23, 2016 11:30 | 45m | 1,888 | 708 |
| 2 | August 3, 2016 08:45 | August 3, 2016 09:30 | 45m | 936 | 702 |
| 3 | February 16, 2016 08:15 | February 16, 2016 10:15 | 2h | 481 | 844 |
| 4 | January 27, 2016 15:00 | January 27, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 470 | 1,350 |
| 5 | January 27, 2016 23:45 | January 28, 2016 00:00 | 15m | 470 | 118 |
| 6 | August 29, 2016 16:00 | August 29, 2016 23:30 | 7h 30m | 80 | 185 |
| 7 | May 13, 2016 19:30 | May 14, 2016 00:15 | 4h 45m | 47 | 188 |
| 8 | June 10, 2016 13:45 | June 10, 2016 15:15 | 1h 30m | 34 | 40 |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 07:15 | July 18, 2016 08:30 | 1h 15m | 33 | 32 |
| 10 | July 4, 2016 22:00 | July 5, 2016 04:45 | 6h 45m | 31 | 78 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Pipestone 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.90 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county