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2017 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1719th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2017
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, 2017 00:30 | July 22, 2017 16:45 | 16h 15m | 766 | 3,037 |
| 2 | February 15, 2017 19:00 | February 15, 2017 19:30 | 30m | 660 | 330 |
| 3 | October 27, 2017 06:30 | October 27, 2017 16:30 | 10h | 462 | 735 |
| 4 | July 17, 2017 23:30 | July 18, 2017 22:45 | 23h 15m | 292 | 1,686 |
| 5 | May 18, 2017 03:15 | May 18, 2017 16:15 | 13h | 281 | 1,895 |
| 6 | October 24, 2017 08:30 | October 24, 2017 08:45 | 15m | 264 | 66 |
| 7 | May 26, 2017 19:15 | May 27, 2017 00:45 | 5h 30m | 258 | 1,363 |
| 8 | September 23, 2017 08:45 | September 23, 2017 14:15 | 5h 30m | 214 | 628 |
| 9 | September 20, 2017 07:30 | September 20, 2017 16:45 | 9h 15m | 212 | 765 |
| 10 | March 7, 2017 16:30 | March 8, 2017 19:00 | 1d 2h | 186 | 1,414 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| East Central Energy | 2017 | 56 min | 0.68 | 56 min | 0.68 |
| Lake Country Power | 2017 | 6.1 hrs | 2.22 | 3.2 hrs | 1.70 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Aitkin 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/aitkin-county