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2015 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1175th 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 Carlton 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 | July 29, 2015 06:15 | July 29, 2015 16:15 | 10h | 1,147 | 4,967 |
| 2 | January 15, 2015 15:00 | January 15, 2015 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,133 | 1,325 |
| 3 | May 20, 2015 01:15 | May 20, 2015 01:45 | 30m | 941 | 471 |
| 4 | April 8, 2015 06:00 | April 8, 2015 13:30 | 7h 30m | 940 | 734 |
| 5 | April 28, 2015 22:30 | April 29, 2015 02:00 | 3h 30m | 937 | 1,173 |
| 6 | September 9, 2015 16:15 | September 9, 2015 16:45 | 30m | 936 | 468 |
| 7 | April 2, 2015 19:15 | April 3, 2015 07:45 | 12h 30m | 758 | 2,557 |
| 8 | April 19, 2015 12:15 | April 19, 2015 22:00 | 9h 45m | 749 | 3,052 |
| 9 | March 16, 2015 18:15 | March 17, 2015 04:30 | 10h 15m | 738 | 383 |
| 10 | November 5, 2015 14:00 | November 5, 2015 16:00 | 2h | 726 | 1,149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 33 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county