County annual report · FIPS 27053
2017 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1492nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hennepin County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 8, 2017 05:45 | June 18, 2017 04:00 | 9d 22h | 53,530 | 876K |
| 2 | April 25, 2017 13:30 | April 26, 2017 03:30 | 14h | 35,115 | 18K |
| 3 | July 2, 2017 11:45 | July 3, 2017 03:00 | 15h 15m | 6,578 | 4,803 |
| 4 | July 12, 2017 04:15 | July 13, 2017 03:30 | 23h 15m | 5,390 | 13K |
| 5 | June 29, 2017 10:30 | July 2, 2017 06:00 | 2d 19h | 5,238 | 14K |
| 6 | July 25, 2017 08:45 | July 28, 2017 03:15 | 2d 18h | 4,670 | 32K |
| 7 | May 26, 2017 11:45 | May 27, 2017 19:30 | 1d 7h | 4,642 | 9,637 |
| 8 | August 21, 2017 04:15 | August 22, 2017 06:15 | 1d 2h | 4,208 | 8,370 |
| 9 | June 18, 2017 08:45 | June 20, 2017 06:45 | 1d 22h | 4,097 | 8,389 |
| 10 | September 1, 2017 14:00 | September 2, 2017 17:45 | 1d 3h | 3,755 | 5,577 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 163 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hennepin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2017 | 75 min | 1.53 | 75 min | 1.53 |
| Connexus Energy | 2017 | 87 min | 0.71 | 32 min | 0.44 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 82 min | 0.58 | 36 min | 0.45 |
| City of Elk River | 2017 | 32 min | 0.31 | 32 min | 0.31 |
| City of Anoka | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 624,985 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. Hennepin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hennepin County, MN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/hennepin-county