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2016 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 3,869 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2031st 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 Redwood 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 | April 18, 2016 20:45 | April 19, 2016 03:30 | 6h 45m | 281 | 1,136 |
| 2 | May 31, 2016 12:00 | June 1, 2016 00:45 | 12h 45m | 204 | 876 |
| 3 | June 9, 2016 14:30 | June 9, 2016 17:00 | 2h 30m | 204 | 460 |
| 4 | June 18, 2016 18:30 | June 19, 2016 10:15 | 15h 45m | 127 | 617 |
| 5 | June 18, 2016 08:45 | June 18, 2016 14:30 | 5h 45m | 125 | 717 |
| 6 | August 2, 2016 21:45 | August 2, 2016 23:15 | 1h 30m | 8 | 9 |
| 7 | September 5, 2016 08:00 | September 5, 2016 10:00 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | January 13, 2016 18:45 | January 13, 2016 21:15 | 2h 30m | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | April 5, 2016 01:00 | April 5, 2016 02:30 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | June 9, 2016 02:30 | June 9, 2016 03:30 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 Redwood 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.90 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | - | 32 min | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Falls Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county