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2017 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1359th 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 Koochiching 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 | September 20, 2017 06:45 | September 21, 2017 23:00 | 1d 16h | 1,074 | 3,829 |
| 2 | January 25, 2017 08:15 | January 25, 2017 10:30 | 2h 15m | 1,009 | 2,270 |
| 3 | July 17, 2017 22:30 | July 18, 2017 18:00 | 19h 30m | 854 | 5,407 |
| 4 | November 20, 2017 14:30 | November 20, 2017 14:45 | 15m | 823 | 206 |
| 5 | September 18, 2017 18:45 | September 18, 2017 22:45 | 4h | 822 | 1,215 |
| 6 | September 22, 2017 10:15 | September 22, 2017 16:45 | 6h 30m | 491 | 2,461 |
| 7 | February 11, 2017 15:30 | February 11, 2017 17:15 | 1h 45m | 474 | 830 |
| 8 | October 21, 2017 15:30 | October 21, 2017 18:30 | 3h | 469 | 1,407 |
| 9 | October 27, 2017 01:45 | October 27, 2017 10:00 | 8h 15m | 299 | 1,033 |
| 10 | June 11, 2017 14:45 | June 11, 2017 22:00 | 7h 15m | 275 | 1,510 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county