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2016 Sibley County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sibley County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 3,756 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2000th 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 Sibley 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 | January 14, 2016 14:45 | January 14, 2016 17:00 | 2h 15m | 349 | 206 |
| 2 | June 13, 2016 05:00 | June 13, 2016 07:00 | 2h | 272 | 544 |
| 3 | April 28, 2016 19:30 | April 28, 2016 20:15 | 45m | 271 | 203 |
| 4 | September 6, 2016 05:00 | September 6, 2016 08:00 | 3h | 225 | 620 |
| 5 | September 14, 2016 02:45 | September 14, 2016 03:15 | 30m | 225 | 113 |
| 6 | September 14, 2016 04:00 | September 14, 2016 05:45 | 1h 45m | 225 | 394 |
| 7 | September 14, 2016 07:15 | September 14, 2016 11:45 | 4h 30m | 225 | 157 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 21:15 | January 10, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 116 | 31 |
| 9 | September 6, 2016 14:00 | September 6, 2016 14:45 | 45m | 90 | 45 |
| 10 | August 11, 2016 11:15 | August 11, 2016 13:30 | 2h 15m | 82 | 185 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Sibley 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Le Sueur - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arlington - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winthrop - (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 ÷ 6,912 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. Sibley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sibley 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/sibley-county