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2016 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 14.0 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 236th 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 Koochiching 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 | November 18, 2016 16:30 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 2d 20h | 2,124 | 37K |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 06:45 | July 24, 2016 22:30 | 3d 15h | 1,425 | 20K |
| 3 | August 4, 2016 08:15 | August 7, 2016 19:15 | 3d 11h | 1,113 | 41K |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 20:30 | June 18, 2016 06:00 | 9h 30m | 1,106 | 2,458 |
| 5 | April 14, 2016 21:15 | April 15, 2016 02:15 | 5h | 1,103 | 3,491 |
| 6 | July 10, 2016 11:15 | July 10, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 1,103 | 1,936 |
| 7 | July 11, 2016 09:30 | July 11, 2016 23:15 | 13h 45m | 1,103 | 2,500 |
| 8 | November 28, 2016 16:00 | November 28, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 1,099 | 275 |
| 9 | March 17, 2016 08:15 | March 17, 2016 15:00 | 6h 45m | 1,071 | 7,229 |
| 10 | December 26, 2016 02:30 | December 26, 2016 08:30 | 6h | 964 | 2,744 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.45 | 3.4 hrs | 1.45 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county