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2016 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 20.7 hours, a total of 2.6M customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 139th 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 St. Louis 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 06:45 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 12d 9h | 34,294 | 2.0M |
| 2 | March 22, 2016 13:00 | March 23, 2016 10:00 | 21h | 9,702 | 5,509 |
| 3 | November 18, 2016 10:00 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 3d 2h | 7,048 | 207K |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 04:15 | July 8, 2016 03:45 | 2d 23h | 5,321 | 56K |
| 5 | September 6, 2016 00:00 | September 7, 2016 01:30 | 1d 1h | 4,286 | 18K |
| 6 | March 19, 2016 14:45 | March 20, 2016 12:30 | 21h 45m | 4,116 | 11K |
| 7 | October 14, 2016 20:45 | October 15, 2016 05:00 | 8h 15m | 4,082 | 3,572 |
| 8 | June 25, 2016 11:30 | June 28, 2016 02:30 | 2d 15h | 4,080 | 26K |
| 9 | March 3, 2016 02:30 | March 3, 2016 03:15 | 45m | 3,673 | 1,798 |
| 10 | December 23, 2016 05:30 | December 27, 2016 09:00 | 4d 3h | 3,561 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 137 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.45 | 3.4 hrs | 1.45 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2016 | 12.7 hrs | 2.43 | 2.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor 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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county