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2015 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1127th 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 Itasca 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 | September 6, 2015 02:30 | September 7, 2015 11:30 | 1d 9h | 2,111 | 4,022 |
| 2 | July 5, 2015 20:30 | July 6, 2015 15:30 | 19h | 1,220 | 5,426 |
| 3 | April 2, 2015 17:15 | April 3, 2015 10:30 | 17h 15m | 847 | 2,080 |
| 4 | March 4, 2015 14:15 | March 4, 2015 17:00 | 2h 45m | 846 | 637 |
| 5 | September 8, 2015 19:15 | September 9, 2015 04:45 | 9h 30m | 649 | 2,242 |
| 6 | July 13, 2015 01:30 | July 14, 2015 00:45 | 23h 15m | 619 | 6,945 |
| 7 | July 15, 2015 10:45 | July 15, 2015 17:45 | 7h | 550 | 1,562 |
| 8 | February 1, 2015 12:45 | February 1, 2015 16:45 | 4h | 543 | 1,704 |
| 9 | May 18, 2015 20:45 | May 19, 2015 02:30 | 5h 45m | 543 | 1,113 |
| 10 | February 22, 2015 17:15 | February 22, 2015 20:00 | 2h 45m | 463 | 872 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 45 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2015 | 5.1 hrs | 2.50 | 3.4 hrs | 1.87 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 1.65 | 1.9 hrs | 1.65 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin Public 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county