County annual report · FIPS 27147
2016 Steele County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Steele County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 97 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2338th 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 Steele 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 20, 2016 12:30 | July 20, 2016 15:15 | 2h 45m | 30 | 39 |
| 2 | August 4, 2016 12:45 | August 4, 2016 13:15 | 30m | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | February 13, 2016 13:15 | February 13, 2016 16:15 | 3h | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | June 14, 2016 17:30 | June 14, 2016 20:00 | 2h 30m | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | June 27, 2016 00:30 | June 27, 2016 02:00 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | June 30, 2016 18:15 | June 30, 2016 22:30 | 4h 15m | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | July 20, 2016 18:15 | July 20, 2016 19:45 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | February 14, 2016 15:30 | February 14, 2016 17:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | March 12, 2016 00:15 | March 12, 2016 00:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | April 7, 2016 11:15 | April 7, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 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 Steele 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.34 | 82 min | 0.79 |
| City of Owatonna - (MN) | 2016 | 22 min | 0.27 | 6 min | 0.12 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (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 ÷ 17,365 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county