County annual report · FIPS 27061
2016 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 516K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 129th 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 Itasca 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 07:15 | July 28, 2016 16:45 | 7d 9h | 7,071 | 285K |
| 2 | July 5, 2016 22:30 | July 9, 2016 03:45 | 3d 5h | 3,073 | 63K |
| 3 | June 25, 2016 20:30 | June 27, 2016 07:15 | 1d 10h | 2,295 | 16K |
| 4 | November 18, 2016 14:45 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 2d 22h | 2,126 | 68K |
| 5 | August 10, 2016 22:00 | August 11, 2016 06:00 | 8h | 1,431 | 2,632 |
| 6 | July 11, 2016 10:45 | July 13, 2016 04:00 | 1d 17h | 1,096 | 13K |
| 7 | June 20, 2016 00:15 | June 20, 2016 22:45 | 22h 30m | 946 | 6,528 |
| 8 | August 6, 2016 11:30 | August 7, 2016 02:30 | 15h | 786 | 2,256 |
| 9 | August 31, 2016 15:15 | August 31, 2016 19:45 | 4h 30m | 776 | 3,318 |
| 10 | June 3, 2016 11:45 | June 3, 2016 13:45 | 2h | 665 | 504 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2016 | 40.6 hrs | 4.58 | 4.1 hrs | 2.16 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.4 hrs | 2.56 | 3.4 hrs | 2.02 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county