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2016 Waseca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Waseca County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 9,065 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1703rd 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 Waseca 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 | April 19, 2016 06:15 | April 19, 2016 11:15 | 5h | 807 | 3,431 |
| 2 | June 14, 2016 22:15 | June 15, 2016 04:00 | 5h 45m | 737 | 1,572 |
| 3 | July 6, 2016 01:30 | July 7, 2016 00:30 | 23h | 479 | 1,994 |
| 4 | June 4, 2016 22:15 | June 4, 2016 23:00 | 45m | 422 | 216 |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 01:00 | June 5, 2016 02:30 | 1h 30m | 422 | 423 |
| 6 | February 9, 2016 01:30 | February 9, 2016 05:00 | 3h 30m | 53 | 186 |
| 7 | April 12, 2016 04:15 | April 12, 2016 08:00 | 3h 45m | 43 | 161 |
| 8 | June 10, 2016 22:15 | June 11, 2016 14:45 | 16h 30m | 42 | 134 |
| 9 | August 17, 2016 03:30 | August 17, 2016 04:30 | 1h | 42 | 21 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 14:30 | July 23, 2016 19:15 | 4h 45m | 40 | 106 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 Waseca 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 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| City of Waseca - (MN) | 2016 | 53 min | 1.97 | 19 min | 0.44 |
| City of Janesville - (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 ÷ 7,916 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. Waseca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waseca 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/waseca-county