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2018 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2099th 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 Crow Wing 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 | March 8, 2018 14:45 | March 8, 2018 19:45 | 5h | 1,918 | 8,117 |
| 2 | December 17, 2018 14:45 | December 17, 2018 21:30 | 6h 45m | 1,915 | 5,352 |
| 3 | January 28, 2018 21:15 | January 28, 2018 23:15 | 2h | 1,321 | 1,288 |
| 4 | June 30, 2018 05:45 | July 2, 2018 17:00 | 2d 11h | 1,199 | 9,320 |
| 5 | October 26, 2018 18:00 | October 26, 2018 19:00 | 1h | 1,159 | 418 |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 09:45 | July 4, 2018 14:00 | 4h 15m | 1,133 | 1,453 |
| 7 | August 31, 2018 23:45 | September 1, 2018 11:00 | 11h 15m | 899 | 4,933 |
| 8 | July 12, 2018 07:45 | July 12, 2018 17:30 | 9h 45m | 885 | 2,553 |
| 9 | August 16, 2018 01:15 | August 16, 2018 04:00 | 2h 45m | 836 | 1,714 |
| 10 | March 27, 2018 13:45 | March 27, 2018 20:15 | 6h 30m | 765 | 4,567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Crow Wing 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 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2018 | 86 min | 0.73 | 74 min | 0.70 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.46 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county