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2017 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 796th 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 Itasca 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 31, 2017 20:30 | August 1, 2017 12:15 | 15h 45m | 4,102 | 65K |
| 2 | July 21, 2017 22:30 | July 22, 2017 20:45 | 22h 15m | 1,604 | 13K |
| 3 | June 6, 2017 23:45 | June 7, 2017 01:15 | 1h 30m | 1,595 | 843 |
| 4 | October 27, 2017 00:00 | October 28, 2017 16:15 | 1d 16h | 1,328 | 9,934 |
| 5 | September 4, 2017 16:45 | September 5, 2017 00:30 | 7h 45m | 1,072 | 1,423 |
| 6 | September 20, 2017 20:45 | September 21, 2017 03:00 | 6h 15m | 931 | 5,799 |
| 7 | September 20, 2017 06:00 | September 20, 2017 20:00 | 14h | 920 | 3,241 |
| 8 | March 17, 2017 06:45 | March 17, 2017 08:30 | 1h 45m | 792 | 1,131 |
| 9 | October 31, 2017 23:45 | November 1, 2017 07:00 | 7h 15m | 743 | 5,387 |
| 10 | October 25, 2017 13:45 | October 25, 2017 15:45 | 2h | 733 | 634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 63 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2017 | 6.1 hrs | 2.22 | 3.2 hrs | 1.70 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin 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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county