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2016 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 4,737 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1528th 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 Wilkin 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 | May 8, 2016 13:45 | May 8, 2016 14:15 | 30m | 525 | 263 |
| 2 | September 8, 2016 21:00 | September 8, 2016 21:15 | 15m | 453 | 113 |
| 3 | November 19, 2016 10:45 | November 19, 2016 12:00 | 1h 15m | 388 | 436 |
| 4 | September 8, 2016 00:15 | September 8, 2016 02:45 | 2h 30m | 179 | 142 |
| 5 | September 11, 2016 10:15 | September 11, 2016 11:45 | 1h 30m | 179 | 267 |
| 6 | April 8, 2016 01:15 | April 8, 2016 02:15 | 1h | 178 | 149 |
| 7 | December 10, 2016 00:00 | December 10, 2016 00:45 | 45m | 178 | 106 |
| 8 | December 15, 2016 01:45 | December 15, 2016 05:00 | 3h 15m | 138 | 364 |
| 9 | May 5, 2016 02:15 | May 5, 2016 08:00 | 5h 45m | 115 | 525 |
| 10 | February 13, 2016 06:15 | February 13, 2016 10:15 | 4h | 90 | 360 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 2.08 | 1.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county