County annual report · FIPS 27071
2015 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 18.5 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 128th 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 Koochiching 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 23, 2015 19:30 | September 29, 2015 18:45 | 5d 23h | 2,195 | 8,036 |
| 2 | July 12, 2015 22:45 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 6d 3h | 1,984 | 138K |
| 3 | April 28, 2015 17:30 | April 28, 2015 18:15 | 45m | 1,228 | 335 |
| 4 | June 23, 2015 00:30 | June 23, 2015 02:00 | 1h 30m | 1,220 | 309 |
| 5 | March 25, 2015 15:45 | March 25, 2015 18:45 | 3h | 1,113 | 1,651 |
| 6 | July 9, 2015 14:00 | July 9, 2015 20:30 | 6h 30m | 989 | 589 |
| 7 | June 20, 2015 07:15 | June 20, 2015 07:30 | 15m | 875 | 219 |
| 8 | June 24, 2015 13:30 | June 24, 2015 14:00 | 30m | 874 | 437 |
| 9 | June 24, 2015 15:45 | June 24, 2015 16:30 | 45m | 874 | 656 |
| 10 | January 27, 2015 13:00 | January 27, 2015 14:30 | 1h 30m | 673 | 842 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county