County annual report · FIPS 27165
2016 Watonwan County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Watonwan County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 466 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2221st 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 Watonwan County, 2016
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 15, 2016 10:30 | March 15, 2016 14:15 | 3h 45m | 77 | 289 |
| 2 | March 30, 2016 11:45 | March 30, 2016 14:15 | 2h 30m | 77 | 174 |
| 3 | June 20, 2016 01:15 | June 20, 2016 01:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | June 20, 2016 02:30 | June 20, 2016 06:00 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
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 Watonwan 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 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 | 2.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Madelia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St James - (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 ÷ 4,294 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. Watonwan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watonwan 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/watonwan-county