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2016 Washington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 211K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1371st 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 Washington 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 10, 2016 16:00 | August 11, 2016 01:30 | 9h 30m | 6,718 | 23K |
| 2 | June 28, 2016 12:15 | June 28, 2016 19:00 | 6h 45m | 6,383 | 1,615 |
| 3 | March 30, 2016 12:15 | March 30, 2016 18:00 | 5h 45m | 6,276 | 9,424 |
| 4 | June 15, 2016 03:30 | June 15, 2016 12:00 | 8h 30m | 5,812 | 29K |
| 5 | June 25, 2016 09:45 | June 25, 2016 21:45 | 12h | 5,748 | 16K |
| 6 | September 12, 2016 11:15 | September 12, 2016 15:45 | 4h 30m | 4,319 | 1,086 |
| 7 | August 9, 2016 09:45 | August 9, 2016 21:00 | 11h 15m | 3,115 | 4,001 |
| 8 | July 18, 2016 20:00 | July 18, 2016 23:30 | 3h 30m | 2,907 | 2,568 |
| 9 | April 18, 2016 04:00 | April 18, 2016 11:15 | 7h 15m | 2,872 | 4,830 |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 09:15 | July 21, 2016 10:00 | 45m | 2,553 | 1,543 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 97 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Washington 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Connexus Energy | 2016 | 46 min | 0.45 | 30 min | 0.35 |
| City of North St Paul - (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 ÷ 109,959 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county