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2016 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1319th 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 Wright 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 | July 5, 2016 20:30 | July 8, 2016 11:00 | 2d 14h | 16,996 | 61K |
| 2 | February 1, 2016 14:15 | February 1, 2016 16:00 | 1h 45m | 5,356 | 4,902 |
| 3 | May 9, 2016 15:15 | May 10, 2016 03:30 | 12h 15m | 4,170 | 5,277 |
| 4 | December 10, 2016 21:30 | December 10, 2016 22:30 | 1h | 2,494 | 1,981 |
| 5 | May 19, 2016 16:00 | May 20, 2016 11:30 | 19h 30m | 1,313 | 20K |
| 6 | May 20, 2016 13:30 | May 20, 2016 22:30 | 9h | 1,311 | 1,671 |
| 7 | September 17, 2016 02:45 | September 17, 2016 07:45 | 5h | 1,257 | 2,518 |
| 8 | May 26, 2016 21:00 | May 26, 2016 23:45 | 2h 45m | 1,004 | 2,255 |
| 9 | August 4, 2016 10:30 | August 5, 2016 04:30 | 18h | 991 | 1,517 |
| 10 | September 22, 2016 00:30 | September 22, 2016 05:45 | 5h 15m | 942 | 933 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 46 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Wright 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 0.68 | 44 min | 0.49 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| City of Elk River | 2016 | 28 min | 0.24 | 28 min | 0.24 |
| City of Buffalo - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delano Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 63,435 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county