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2018 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1504th 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 Itasca 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 26, 2018 16:30 | March 26, 2018 17:30 | 1h | 2,168 | 671 |
| 2 | October 3, 2018 22:00 | October 4, 2018 18:30 | 20h 30m | 1,676 | 11K |
| 3 | December 12, 2018 16:00 | December 12, 2018 17:45 | 1h 45m | 1,529 | 781 |
| 4 | June 26, 2018 11:30 | June 26, 2018 16:00 | 4h 30m | 1,313 | 1,481 |
| 5 | October 5, 2018 05:45 | October 6, 2018 02:45 | 21h | 1,155 | 6,246 |
| 6 | May 22, 2018 11:00 | May 22, 2018 12:15 | 1h 15m | 1,039 | 1,299 |
| 7 | August 20, 2018 11:30 | August 20, 2018 21:45 | 10h 15m | 1,012 | 3,706 |
| 8 | January 31, 2018 16:00 | January 31, 2018 18:00 | 2h | 874 | 1,531 |
| 9 | July 12, 2018 06:45 | July 12, 2018 17:00 | 10h 15m | 827 | 2,710 |
| 10 | August 21, 2018 12:00 | August 21, 2018 14:30 | 2h 30m | 783 | 1,958 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 45 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2018 | 12.7 hrs | 2.92 | 3.7 hrs | 1.91 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin 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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county