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2018 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 769th 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 Koochiching 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 | August 27, 2018 06:45 | August 29, 2018 17:45 | 2d 11h | 2,082 | 31K |
| 2 | December 6, 2018 13:30 | December 6, 2018 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,517 | 2,355 |
| 3 | October 22, 2018 13:00 | October 22, 2018 14:45 | 1h 45m | 1,361 | 2,381 |
| 4 | June 29, 2018 12:00 | July 1, 2018 15:15 | 2d 3h | 1,153 | 8,710 |
| 5 | March 5, 2018 19:15 | March 5, 2018 20:45 | 1h 30m | 1,065 | 1,332 |
| 6 | March 14, 2018 16:00 | March 14, 2018 16:15 | 15m | 1,065 | 266 |
| 7 | January 18, 2018 18:45 | January 18, 2018 21:00 | 2h 15m | 828 | 624 |
| 8 | July 3, 2018 15:00 | July 3, 2018 15:15 | 15m | 722 | 181 |
| 9 | June 16, 2018 14:30 | June 16, 2018 19:45 | 5h 15m | 560 | 2,939 |
| 10 | July 8, 2018 13:15 | July 9, 2018 19:15 | 1d 6h | 323 | 1,719 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| 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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county