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2017 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1394th 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 Pine 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 | March 7, 2017 17:15 | March 8, 2017 22:45 | 1d 5h | 1,901 | 14K |
| 2 | October 19, 2017 02:15 | October 19, 2017 10:30 | 8h 15m | 1,771 | 8,665 |
| 3 | May 18, 2017 02:15 | May 18, 2017 20:00 | 17h 45m | 1,719 | 5,488 |
| 4 | March 13, 2017 18:00 | March 13, 2017 18:45 | 45m | 1,156 | 867 |
| 5 | March 3, 2017 20:00 | March 4, 2017 02:30 | 6h 30m | 742 | 903 |
| 6 | July 12, 2017 08:45 | July 12, 2017 12:15 | 3h 30m | 722 | 785 |
| 7 | January 19, 2017 20:30 | January 19, 2017 22:00 | 1h 30m | 651 | 652 |
| 8 | December 27, 2017 09:00 | December 28, 2017 12:30 | 1d 3h | 581 | 4,560 |
| 9 | July 1, 2017 04:00 | July 1, 2017 06:00 | 2h | 381 | 762 |
| 10 | August 3, 2017 15:00 | August 3, 2017 16:30 | 1h 30m | 188 | 116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county