County annual report · FIPS 27159
2016 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1150th 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 Wadena 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 | August 4, 2016 07:30 | August 5, 2016 16:15 | 1d 8h | 1,415 | 6,693 |
| 2 | September 26, 2016 17:15 | September 26, 2016 18:00 | 45m | 1,414 | 1,061 |
| 3 | March 22, 2016 16:00 | March 22, 2016 17:15 | 1h 15m | 727 | 909 |
| 4 | September 6, 2016 00:30 | September 6, 2016 13:15 | 12h 45m | 551 | 1,775 |
| 5 | October 14, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 00:15 | 1h 45m | 522 | 448 |
| 6 | June 8, 2016 11:45 | June 8, 2016 15:45 | 4h | 314 | 335 |
| 7 | March 13, 2016 13:00 | March 13, 2016 18:15 | 5h 15m | 239 | 1,255 |
| 8 | December 26, 2016 08:30 | December 26, 2016 15:45 | 7h 15m | 233 | 1,689 |
| 9 | January 14, 2016 15:00 | January 14, 2016 16:00 | 1h | 221 | 138 |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 06:30 | July 26, 2016 17:30 | 5d 11h | 202 | 3,472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Wadena 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2016 | 17.3 hrs | 3.74 | 2.0 hrs | 1.57 |
| City of Wadena - (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 ÷ 8,800 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. Wadena County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wadena 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/wadena-county