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2018 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2114th 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 Carlton 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 00:45 | September 2, 2018 14:15 | 1d 13h | 1,160 | 3,089 |
| 2 | June 15, 2018 17:45 | June 15, 2018 21:45 | 4h | 880 | 1,405 |
| 3 | October 10, 2018 04:45 | October 11, 2018 01:15 | 20h 30m | 779 | 4,188 |
| 4 | April 29, 2018 22:30 | April 30, 2018 03:00 | 4h 30m | 746 | 2,392 |
| 5 | May 20, 2018 02:00 | May 20, 2018 02:30 | 30m | 733 | 189 |
| 6 | December 28, 2018 01:30 | December 28, 2018 20:30 | 19h | 653 | 4,023 |
| 7 | June 28, 2018 21:15 | July 1, 2018 14:00 | 2d 16h | 619 | 4,093 |
| 8 | December 18, 2018 19:45 | December 18, 2018 20:00 | 15m | 533 | 133 |
| 9 | December 18, 2018 14:45 | December 18, 2018 16:00 | 1h 15m | 532 | 665 |
| 10 | July 18, 2018 15:30 | July 18, 2018 20:45 | 5h 15m | 530 | 1,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county