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2016 Stearns County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Stearns County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1923rd 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 Stearns 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 21:15 | July 6, 2016 22:30 | 1d 1h | 3,524 | 9,838 |
| 2 | June 19, 2016 09:00 | June 19, 2016 14:00 | 5h | 3,377 | 10K |
| 3 | August 9, 2016 20:30 | August 9, 2016 22:15 | 1h 45m | 1,879 | 1,415 |
| 4 | July 7, 2016 15:15 | July 7, 2016 16:00 | 45m | 1,307 | 980 |
| 5 | August 10, 2016 23:30 | August 11, 2016 01:30 | 2h | 1,230 | 1,251 |
| 6 | May 30, 2016 02:00 | May 30, 2016 08:00 | 6h | 1,116 | 4,513 |
| 7 | May 23, 2016 21:15 | May 24, 2016 01:00 | 3h 45m | 892 | 3,345 |
| 8 | July 27, 2016 07:00 | July 27, 2016 10:15 | 3h 15m | 652 | 1,630 |
| 9 | September 22, 2016 00:30 | September 22, 2016 01:30 | 1h | 608 | 595 |
| 10 | March 9, 2016 04:45 | March 9, 2016 13:15 | 8h 30m | 554 | 2,936 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 29 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Stearns 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 89 min | 1.06 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 0.68 | 44 min | 0.49 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.23 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 2.97 | 71 min | 0.89 |
| City of Sauk Centre - (MN) | 2016 | 1 min | 0.03 | 1 min | 0.03 |
| Melrose Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 79,310 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. Stearns County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stearns 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/stearns-county