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2016 Scott County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Scott County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1833rd 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 Scott 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 23:15 | July 8, 2016 11:00 | 2d 11h | 2,284 | 12K |
| 2 | June 14, 2016 12:15 | June 14, 2016 19:30 | 7h 15m | 2,084 | 11K |
| 3 | July 20, 2016 13:30 | July 20, 2016 17:15 | 3h 45m | 2,029 | 561 |
| 4 | August 19, 2016 07:15 | August 19, 2016 18:30 | 11h 15m | 1,757 | 2,900 |
| 5 | September 9, 2016 08:00 | September 9, 2016 11:30 | 3h 30m | 1,696 | 3,876 |
| 6 | September 13, 2016 14:30 | September 13, 2016 14:45 | 15m | 1,686 | 422 |
| 7 | April 26, 2016 22:15 | April 26, 2016 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,213 | 1,212 |
| 8 | February 7, 2016 03:45 | February 7, 2016 06:00 | 2h 15m | 1,193 | 2,078 |
| 9 | October 27, 2016 01:00 | October 27, 2016 05:15 | 4h 15m | 1,181 | 1,183 |
| 10 | March 16, 2016 16:45 | March 16, 2016 17:30 | 45m | 1,151 | 863 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Scott 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 |
| Dakota Electric Association | 2016 | 33 min | 0.44 | 21 min | 0.31 |
| Shakopee Public Utilities Comm | 2016 | 27 min | 0.49 | 27 min | 0.49 |
| New Prague Utilities 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 ÷ 61,831 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county