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2018 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 789th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2018
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 1, 2018 00:30 | September 2, 2018 21:45 | 1d 21h | 2,841 | 43K |
| 2 | October 3, 2018 23:00 | October 4, 2018 15:00 | 16h | 1,707 | 6,489 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 13:30 | July 4, 2018 18:30 | 5h | 1,639 | 5,056 |
| 4 | August 26, 2018 22:15 | August 27, 2018 08:30 | 10h 15m | 1,037 | 1,267 |
| 5 | September 5, 2018 15:15 | September 5, 2018 16:30 | 1h 15m | 921 | 1,151 |
| 6 | June 6, 2018 09:30 | June 6, 2018 12:15 | 2h 45m | 914 | 2,514 |
| 7 | July 9, 2018 09:30 | July 9, 2018 11:15 | 1h 45m | 542 | 520 |
| 8 | October 5, 2018 11:00 | October 5, 2018 20:00 | 9h | 524 | 2,030 |
| 9 | December 27, 2018 23:30 | December 28, 2018 21:15 | 21h 45m | 471 | 4,096 |
| 10 | June 28, 2018 19:45 | June 29, 2018 08:00 | 12h 15m | 457 | 1,669 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 26 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
| Lake Country Power | 2018 | 12.7 hrs | 2.92 | 3.7 hrs | 1.91 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.46 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 |
| Aitkin 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/minnesota/aitkin-county