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2018 Beltrami County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Beltrami County, MN went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 162K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 971st 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 Beltrami 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 | June 29, 2018 10:30 | July 5, 2018 19:15 | 6d 8h | 9,836 | 92K |
| 2 | July 8, 2018 08:15 | July 9, 2018 01:15 | 17h | 4,843 | 10K |
| 3 | June 10, 2018 17:45 | June 11, 2018 12:45 | 19h | 3,852 | 4,102 |
| 4 | August 21, 2018 17:30 | August 22, 2018 13:15 | 19h 45m | 1,762 | 1,320 |
| 5 | June 16, 2018 01:15 | June 19, 2018 00:15 | 2d 23h | 1,354 | 2,647 |
| 6 | June 13, 2018 13:30 | June 14, 2018 20:00 | 1d 6h | 1,352 | 2,185 |
| 7 | August 24, 2018 19:45 | August 28, 2018 17:30 | 3d 21h | 1,240 | 6,633 |
| 8 | September 11, 2018 08:15 | September 11, 2018 08:45 | 30m | 1,213 | 606 |
| 9 | September 10, 2018 21:00 | September 10, 2018 21:30 | 30m | 776 | 388 |
| 10 | September 19, 2018 14:00 | September 19, 2018 21:15 | 7h 15m | 577 | 589 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 77 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Beltrami 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.30 | 1.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Roseau Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 83 min | 0.58 | 83 min | 0.58 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,065 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. Beltrami County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beltrami 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/beltrami-county