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2015 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 905th 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 Pine 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 6, 2015 02:45 | May 7, 2015 16:15 | 1d 13h | 1,154 | 28K |
| 2 | July 29, 2015 15:00 | July 29, 2015 19:15 | 4h 15m | 1,140 | 1,728 |
| 3 | July 12, 2015 17:15 | July 13, 2015 08:00 | 14h 45m | 796 | 6,743 |
| 4 | September 10, 2015 14:00 | September 10, 2015 19:00 | 5h | 651 | 2,683 |
| 5 | June 22, 2015 16:00 | June 23, 2015 07:15 | 15h 15m | 649 | 3,090 |
| 6 | November 5, 2015 15:00 | November 5, 2015 21:00 | 6h | 639 | 889 |
| 7 | September 15, 2015 23:15 | September 15, 2015 23:30 | 15m | 256 | 64 |
| 8 | January 23, 2015 17:30 | January 23, 2015 20:45 | 3h 15m | 244 | 776 |
| 9 | November 18, 2015 17:30 | November 18, 2015 18:30 | 1h | 244 | 244 |
| 10 | April 2, 2015 19:30 | April 3, 2015 10:30 | 15h | 161 | 1,503 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 12 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county