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2018 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1952nd 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 Pine 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 | December 20, 2018 15:30 | December 20, 2018 21:30 | 6h | 1,208 | 1,870 |
| 2 | February 26, 2018 20:45 | February 26, 2018 22:30 | 1h 45m | 1,101 | 1,927 |
| 3 | February 27, 2018 16:30 | February 27, 2018 17:00 | 30m | 1,101 | 551 |
| 4 | June 17, 2018 19:45 | June 18, 2018 00:00 | 4h 15m | 1,097 | 3,568 |
| 5 | June 3, 2018 22:15 | June 4, 2018 01:15 | 3h | 1,096 | 412 |
| 6 | August 7, 2018 16:30 | August 7, 2018 19:15 | 2h 45m | 1,095 | 3,011 |
| 7 | August 27, 2018 17:45 | August 27, 2018 18:30 | 45m | 1,094 | 275 |
| 8 | June 29, 2018 12:30 | June 30, 2018 15:15 | 1d 2h | 872 | 7,957 |
| 9 | December 28, 2018 03:15 | December 28, 2018 11:45 | 8h 30m | 764 | 1,798 |
| 10 | August 10, 2018 23:45 | August 11, 2018 01:30 | 1h 45m | 666 | 1,066 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 16 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county