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2017 Beltrami County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Beltrami County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1676th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beltrami 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 | November 29, 2017 18:30 | November 29, 2017 22:15 | 3h 45m | 3,846 | 1,042 |
| 2 | December 16, 2017 02:00 | December 18, 2017 14:00 | 2d 12h | 599 | 31K |
| 3 | November 27, 2017 21:30 | November 28, 2017 15:00 | 17h 30m | 407 | 6,158 |
| 4 | November 28, 2017 22:30 | November 29, 2017 14:30 | 16h | 206 | 3,148 |
| 5 | November 25, 2017 17:00 | November 27, 2017 17:30 | 2d | 205 | 9,404 |
| 6 | November 28, 2017 16:45 | November 28, 2017 20:30 | 3h 45m | 203 | 74 |
| 7 | November 23, 2017 00:00 | November 24, 2017 13:45 | 1d 13h | 82 | 3,027 |
| 8 | November 22, 2017 00:45 | November 22, 2017 02:30 | 1h 45m | 80 | 140 |
| 9 | December 21, 2017 02:30 | December 21, 2017 07:45 | 5h 15m | 46 | 230 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 05:45 | December 5, 2017 09:00 | 3h 15m | 32 | 104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Beltrami 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 2.12 | 2.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Roseau Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 3.5 hrs | 1.33 | 3.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,065 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. Beltrami County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beltrami 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/beltrami-county