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2015 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1840th 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 St. Louis 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 16:45 | September 7, 2015 12:15 | 19h 30m | 3,338 | 9,214 |
| 2 | April 2, 2015 17:15 | April 3, 2015 20:00 | 1d 2h | 2,808 | 15K |
| 3 | June 28, 2015 16:30 | June 28, 2015 23:00 | 6h 30m | 1,961 | 4,426 |
| 4 | March 7, 2015 20:45 | March 7, 2015 22:30 | 1h 45m | 1,502 | 1,129 |
| 5 | March 14, 2015 16:00 | March 14, 2015 16:45 | 45m | 1,330 | 998 |
| 6 | June 30, 2015 13:15 | June 30, 2015 19:30 | 6h 15m | 1,177 | 892 |
| 7 | November 18, 2015 17:00 | November 19, 2015 22:15 | 1d 5h | 1,175 | 4,537 |
| 8 | January 18, 2015 14:45 | January 18, 2015 20:45 | 6h | 1,137 | 6,057 |
| 9 | November 2, 2015 17:30 | November 3, 2015 01:30 | 8h | 1,084 | 1,994 |
| 10 | January 15, 2015 15:00 | January 15, 2015 15:30 | 30m | 944 | 472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 69 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 St. Louis 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2015 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 | 1.8 hrs | 0.85 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor 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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county