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2016 Todd County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Todd County, MN went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 200th 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 Todd 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 21, 2016 07:00 | July 28, 2016 01:30 | 6d 18h | 4,804 | 95K |
| 2 | December 30, 2016 17:00 | December 30, 2016 18:15 | 1h 15m | 2,815 | 1,409 |
| 3 | June 9, 2016 00:15 | June 9, 2016 05:15 | 5h | 2,413 | 11K |
| 4 | June 19, 2016 21:45 | June 20, 2016 22:45 | 1d 1h | 1,770 | 15K |
| 5 | June 17, 2016 16:45 | June 18, 2016 02:15 | 9h 30m | 1,441 | 2,971 |
| 6 | August 4, 2016 07:45 | August 7, 2016 03:30 | 2d 19h | 1,431 | 31K |
| 7 | December 25, 2016 23:00 | December 26, 2016 11:00 | 12h | 1,242 | 5,727 |
| 8 | July 1, 2016 14:15 | July 1, 2016 20:45 | 6h 30m | 1,138 | 962 |
| 9 | November 18, 2016 18:15 | November 20, 2016 20:15 | 2d 2h | 918 | 11K |
| 10 | July 11, 2016 10:15 | July 12, 2016 03:15 | 17h | 798 | 1,931 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 31 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Todd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 3.27 | 1.8 hrs | 2.87 |
| 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 2.08 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 2.23 | 85 min | 1.35 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 89 min | 1.06 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.23 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2016 | 13.8 hrs | 1.54 | 89 min | 0.76 |
| City of Staples- (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 ÷ 13,003 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. Todd County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Todd 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/todd-county