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2017 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 391K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1317th 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 St. Louis 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 | October 26, 2017 23:00 | October 30, 2017 12:15 | 3d 13h | 7,341 | 65K |
| 2 | February 22, 2017 21:15 | February 23, 2017 16:30 | 19h 15m | 4,893 | 37K |
| 3 | August 5, 2017 09:45 | August 5, 2017 11:30 | 1h 45m | 3,515 | 6,151 |
| 4 | March 7, 2017 15:00 | March 9, 2017 09:15 | 1d 18h | 3,417 | 31K |
| 5 | October 3, 2017 08:30 | October 4, 2017 07:45 | 23h 15m | 2,986 | 3,548 |
| 6 | October 5, 2017 13:00 | October 5, 2017 19:30 | 6h 30m | 2,944 | 1,042 |
| 7 | October 11, 2017 15:00 | October 13, 2017 12:45 | 1d 21h | 2,794 | 7,434 |
| 8 | June 10, 2017 09:45 | June 12, 2017 08:15 | 1d 22h | 2,604 | 6,235 |
| 9 | July 6, 2017 10:15 | July 6, 2017 19:30 | 9h 15m | 2,474 | 5,431 |
| 10 | July 21, 2017 23:15 | July 23, 2017 23:45 | 2d | 2,374 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 152 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2017 | 4.4 hrs | 1.60 | 3.5 hrs | 1.40 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county