County annual report · FIPS 27017
2016 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 438th 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 Carlton 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 08:30 | July 28, 2016 01:15 | 6d 16h | 3,592 | 122K |
| 2 | June 19, 2016 19:00 | June 21, 2016 01:00 | 1d 6h | 3,269 | 26K |
| 3 | December 30, 2016 17:15 | December 30, 2016 17:45 | 30m | 1,121 | 561 |
| 4 | June 25, 2016 21:30 | June 27, 2016 02:15 | 1d 4h | 791 | 5,680 |
| 5 | August 4, 2016 06:30 | August 5, 2016 01:00 | 18h 30m | 763 | 2,753 |
| 6 | June 9, 2016 00:15 | June 9, 2016 05:15 | 5h | 744 | 1,615 |
| 7 | March 2, 2016 14:45 | March 2, 2016 19:00 | 4h 15m | 561 | 2,382 |
| 8 | July 5, 2016 22:30 | July 6, 2016 09:45 | 11h 15m | 466 | 4,654 |
| 9 | June 21, 2016 11:45 | June 21, 2016 21:30 | 9h 45m | 396 | 1,016 |
| 10 | March 16, 2016 11:45 | March 16, 2016 21:15 | 9h 30m | 394 | 1,844 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 20 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county