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2017 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1805th 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 Carlton 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 | May 16, 2017 13:45 | May 16, 2017 15:30 | 1h 45m | 1,541 | 1,704 |
| 2 | May 18, 2017 03:30 | May 18, 2017 14:30 | 11h | 1,541 | 1,032 |
| 3 | September 22, 2017 11:45 | September 23, 2017 05:30 | 17h 45m | 1,456 | 9,130 |
| 4 | October 19, 2017 02:15 | October 19, 2017 07:30 | 5h 15m | 1,104 | 1,934 |
| 5 | March 7, 2017 17:30 | March 9, 2017 14:15 | 1d 20h | 969 | 6,405 |
| 6 | October 19, 2017 08:30 | October 19, 2017 10:15 | 1h 45m | 640 | 212 |
| 7 | September 16, 2017 02:30 | September 16, 2017 03:15 | 45m | 587 | 440 |
| 8 | September 20, 2017 07:30 | September 20, 2017 16:15 | 8h 45m | 403 | 1,584 |
| 9 | September 4, 2017 21:30 | September 5, 2017 06:00 | 8h 30m | 363 | 1,996 |
| 10 | September 4, 2017 03:30 | September 4, 2017 06:30 | 3h | 362 | 424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county