County annual report · FIPS 27001
2016 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 267K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 128th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2016
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 21, 2016 08:45 | July 21, 2016 22:45 | 14h | 3,820 | 44K |
| 2 | July 22, 2016 00:00 | July 27, 2016 22:45 | 5d 22h | 3,594 | 146K |
| 3 | September 19, 2016 18:00 | September 19, 2016 19:15 | 1h 15m | 1,734 | 1,734 |
| 4 | August 15, 2016 15:00 | August 15, 2016 16:00 | 1h | 1,732 | 433 |
| 5 | October 4, 2016 13:15 | October 4, 2016 15:45 | 2h 30m | 1,732 | 4,330 |
| 6 | October 5, 2016 19:45 | October 5, 2016 21:45 | 2h | 1,732 | 2,632 |
| 7 | October 11, 2016 23:00 | October 12, 2016 02:00 | 3h | 1,732 | 2,421 |
| 8 | August 24, 2016 18:15 | August 25, 2016 01:45 | 7h 30m | 1,731 | 3,593 |
| 9 | August 8, 2016 20:45 | August 9, 2016 01:00 | 4h 15m | 1,730 | 7,285 |
| 10 | May 18, 2016 19:45 | May 18, 2016 21:30 | 1h 45m | 1,729 | 3,026 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 40 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Lake Country Power | 2016 | 40.6 hrs | 4.58 | 4.1 hrs | 2.16 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2016 | 8.1 hrs | 2.97 | 3.0 hrs | 2.24 |
| Aitkin 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/minnesota/aitkin-county