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2017 Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 8,301 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1869th 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 Lake 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 | December 4, 2017 22:30 | December 5, 2017 06:30 | 8h | 520 | 1,084 |
| 2 | February 22, 2017 01:15 | February 22, 2017 02:00 | 45m | 430 | 216 |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 16:45 | March 9, 2017 07:30 | 1d 14h | 430 | 1,615 |
| 4 | June 25, 2017 18:00 | June 25, 2017 18:30 | 30m | 413 | 194 |
| 5 | October 27, 2017 04:30 | October 28, 2017 10:30 | 1d 6h | 299 | 1,352 |
| 6 | February 20, 2017 22:00 | February 20, 2017 23:45 | 1h 45m | 287 | 397 |
| 7 | July 5, 2017 14:15 | July 5, 2017 18:15 | 4h | 210 | 470 |
| 8 | July 5, 2017 06:00 | July 5, 2017 09:30 | 3h 30m | 208 | 728 |
| 9 | June 13, 2017 19:45 | June 14, 2017 02:15 | 6h 30m | 141 | 629 |
| 10 | June 10, 2017 20:45 | June 11, 2017 06:45 | 10h | 131 | 843 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Lake 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2017 | 4.4 hrs | 1.60 | 3.5 hrs | 1.40 |
| Arrowhead Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Two Harbors- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,952 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county