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2016 Ramsey County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ramsey County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 261K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1771st 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 Ramsey 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 5, 2016 12:15 | July 6, 2016 00:15 | 12h | 23,598 | 11K |
| 2 | July 7, 2016 03:00 | July 7, 2016 11:00 | 8h | 7,661 | 60K |
| 3 | July 7, 2016 15:15 | July 7, 2016 16:00 | 45m | 6,785 | 4,865 |
| 4 | July 7, 2016 17:45 | July 8, 2016 11:00 | 17h 15m | 4,757 | 17K |
| 5 | June 19, 2016 18:30 | June 20, 2016 10:00 | 15h 30m | 4,373 | 12K |
| 6 | May 3, 2016 23:15 | May 4, 2016 03:30 | 4h 15m | 4,324 | 6,675 |
| 7 | September 3, 2016 11:00 | September 3, 2016 14:00 | 3h | 4,255 | 2,260 |
| 8 | July 27, 2016 16:45 | July 27, 2016 21:30 | 4h 45m | 3,260 | 4,912 |
| 9 | August 9, 2016 12:30 | August 10, 2016 03:15 | 14h 45m | 3,236 | 3,536 |
| 10 | August 7, 2016 11:00 | August 7, 2016 17:30 | 6h 30m | 3,231 | 2,333 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 125 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Connexus Energy | 2016 | 46 min | 0.45 | 30 min | 0.35 |
| City of North St Paul - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 257,190 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. Ramsey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county