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2015 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 586th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2015
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 19, 2015 21:45 | May 20, 2015 02:45 | 5h | 3,481 | 1,964 |
| 2 | April 28, 2015 23:45 | April 29, 2015 01:30 | 1h 45m | 3,474 | 4,343 |
| 3 | April 8, 2015 05:15 | April 8, 2015 11:45 | 6h 30m | 3,468 | 8,927 |
| 4 | June 25, 2015 06:15 | June 25, 2015 10:45 | 4h 30m | 2,627 | 11K |
| 5 | July 13, 2015 01:30 | July 13, 2015 12:45 | 11h 15m | 2,039 | 13K |
| 6 | June 22, 2015 08:45 | June 22, 2015 11:45 | 3h | 1,731 | 1,781 |
| 7 | July 28, 2015 13:15 | July 28, 2015 17:30 | 4h 15m | 1,719 | 1,923 |
| 8 | August 7, 2015 16:15 | August 7, 2015 16:30 | 15m | 1,718 | 430 |
| 9 | June 7, 2015 11:45 | June 7, 2015 19:00 | 7h 15m | 677 | 1,548 |
| 10 | August 31, 2015 13:15 | August 31, 2015 17:00 | 3h 45m | 662 | 1,611 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 22 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| East Central Energy | 2015 | 84 min | 1.00 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Lake Country Power | 2015 | 5.1 hrs | 2.50 | 3.4 hrs | 1.87 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 |
| Aitkin Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/minnesota/aitkin-county