County annual report · FIPS 27075
2016 Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 13.2 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 250th 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 Lake 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 22, 2016 00:00 | July 29, 2016 22:45 | 7d 22h | 432 | 63K |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 16:30 | July 21, 2016 22:45 | 6h 15m | 411 | 1,403 |
| 3 | December 20, 2016 21:30 | December 21, 2016 03:00 | 5h 30m | 367 | 1,545 |
| 4 | December 26, 2016 03:30 | December 26, 2016 05:15 | 1h 45m | 367 | 543 |
| 5 | July 21, 2016 08:45 | July 21, 2016 11:45 | 3h | 315 | 826 |
| 6 | March 16, 2016 16:15 | March 17, 2016 20:30 | 1d 4h | 222 | 2,747 |
| 7 | July 5, 2016 05:15 | July 5, 2016 11:15 | 6h | 208 | 1,248 |
| 8 | January 30, 2016 16:30 | January 31, 2016 21:45 | 1d 5h | 207 | 1,594 |
| 9 | November 19, 2016 00:00 | November 21, 2016 01:45 | 2d 1h | 144 | 4,596 |
| 10 | May 24, 2016 05:45 | May 24, 2016 12:00 | 6h 15m | 112 | 504 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Lake 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2016 | 12.7 hrs | 2.43 | 2.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| Arrowhead Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Two Harbors- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,952 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county