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2016 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 2,878 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 1656th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 4, 2016 11:15 | August 4, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 699 | 1,342 |
| 2 | August 10, 2016 11:15 | August 10, 2016 13:45 | 2h 30m | 223 | 359 |
| 3 | June 10, 2016 13:45 | June 10, 2016 17:45 | 4h | 222 | 473 |
| 4 | June 3, 2016 06:30 | June 3, 2016 15:30 | 9h | 55 | 491 |
| 5 | March 30, 2016 16:30 | March 30, 2016 19:15 | 2h 45m | 15 | 37 |
| 6 | April 22, 2016 02:30 | April 22, 2016 11:30 | 9h | 10 | 29 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 02:30 | June 18, 2016 04:45 | 2h 15m | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | March 3, 2016 20:45 | March 4, 2016 19:15 | 22h 30m | 3 | 64 |
| 9 | January 15, 2016 15:15 | January 15, 2016 20:45 | 5h 30m | 2 | 11 |
| 10 | March 3, 2016 16:30 | March 3, 2016 20:00 | 3h 30m | 2 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 16.0 hrs | 3.55 | 53 min | 1.28 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | - | 32 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2016 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 | 5.0 hrs | 2.32 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county