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2016 Rice County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rice County, MN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 886th 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 Rice 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 6, 2016 00:30 | July 7, 2016 23:30 | 1d 23h | 12,884 | 67K |
| 2 | April 7, 2016 14:00 | April 7, 2016 15:15 | 1h 15m | 2,368 | 2,638 |
| 3 | September 5, 2016 09:15 | September 5, 2016 14:30 | 5h 15m | 1,835 | 4,196 |
| 4 | June 23, 2016 12:15 | June 23, 2016 13:30 | 1h 15m | 1,278 | 640 |
| 5 | August 16, 2016 20:15 | August 16, 2016 20:45 | 30m | 1,168 | 480 |
| 6 | February 12, 2016 19:00 | February 12, 2016 20:15 | 1h 15m | 947 | 1,184 |
| 7 | July 2, 2016 00:30 | July 2, 2016 07:00 | 6h 30m | 921 | 5,981 |
| 8 | June 10, 2016 18:30 | June 12, 2016 01:30 | 1d 7h | 474 | 3,628 |
| 9 | July 1, 2016 13:45 | July 1, 2016 19:30 | 5h 45m | 356 | 1,885 |
| 10 | July 13, 2016 14:00 | July 14, 2016 00:00 | 10h | 317 | 444 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 26 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Rice 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.5 hrs | 1.20 | 58 min | 0.71 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 1.12 | 38 min | 0.47 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2016 | 33 min | 0.44 | 21 min | 0.31 |
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 ÷ 29,247 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county