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2016 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 939 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2192nd 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 Pope 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 26, 2016 22:30 | July 26, 2016 23:30 | 1h | 200 | 200 |
| 2 | March 30, 2016 20:30 | March 30, 2016 23:30 | 3h | 118 | 354 |
| 3 | April 19, 2016 16:15 | April 19, 2016 17:00 | 45m | 76 | 38 |
| 4 | June 3, 2016 13:45 | June 3, 2016 16:15 | 2h 30m | 19 | 48 |
| 5 | July 7, 2016 16:00 | July 8, 2016 00:00 | 8h | 16 | 53 |
| 6 | March 27, 2016 17:30 | March 27, 2016 20:30 | 3h | 14 | 18 |
| 7 | February 22, 2016 04:00 | February 22, 2016 05:30 | 1h 30m | 11 | 17 |
| 8 | June 6, 2016 18:15 | June 6, 2016 18:45 | 30m | 10 | 5 |
| 9 | June 13, 2016 15:00 | June 13, 2016 23:30 | 8h 30m | 9 | 50 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 21:00 | July 20, 2016 02:00 | 5h | 9 | 19 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 3.27 | 1.8 hrs | 2.87 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 89 min | 1.06 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.23 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 2.97 | 71 min | 0.89 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county