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2017 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1460th 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 Crow Wing 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 26, 2017 11:30 | July 26, 2017 18:15 | 6h 45m | 3,464 | 2,777 |
| 2 | September 19, 2017 20:45 | September 22, 2017 02:45 | 2d 6h | 2,946 | 46K |
| 3 | July 17, 2017 22:00 | July 19, 2017 03:00 | 1d 5h | 2,751 | 8,417 |
| 4 | August 2, 2017 13:15 | August 3, 2017 02:00 | 12h 45m | 2,703 | 17K |
| 5 | September 22, 2017 10:30 | September 23, 2017 02:00 | 15h 30m | 2,103 | 7,251 |
| 6 | July 3, 2017 14:15 | July 3, 2017 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,166 | 2,584 |
| 7 | September 24, 2017 21:00 | September 25, 2017 06:15 | 9h 15m | 1,165 | 3,830 |
| 8 | October 31, 2017 23:45 | November 1, 2017 07:00 | 7h 15m | 857 | 6,213 |
| 9 | September 12, 2017 13:45 | September 12, 2017 18:45 | 5h | 667 | 601 |
| 10 | December 21, 2017 14:30 | December 21, 2017 19:15 | 4h 45m | 546 | 1,775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Crow Wing 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 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | 0.81 | 67 min | 0.55 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county