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2019 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2137th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2019
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 3, 2019 03:15 | September 3, 2019 21:15 | 18h | 1,373 | 5,728 |
| 2 | August 22, 2019 16:00 | August 22, 2019 17:45 | 1h 45m | 684 | 184 |
| 3 | September 17, 2019 14:15 | September 17, 2019 17:00 | 2h 45m | 557 | 1,532 |
| 4 | May 9, 2019 00:15 | May 10, 2019 03:15 | 1d 3h | 546 | 5,334 |
| 5 | April 20, 2019 18:45 | April 20, 2019 22:45 | 4h | 429 | 697 |
| 6 | October 21, 2019 22:30 | October 22, 2019 02:00 | 3h 30m | 208 | 603 |
| 7 | July 15, 2019 03:00 | July 15, 2019 06:00 | 3h | 169 | 506 |
| 8 | June 30, 2019 09:00 | June 30, 2019 19:00 | 10h | 155 | 938 |
| 9 | October 11, 2019 18:00 | October 11, 2019 22:00 | 4h | 145 | 284 |
| 10 | February 24, 2019 23:30 | February 25, 2019 02:15 | 2h 45m | 124 | 341 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 13 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.46 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 |
| Aitkin Public Utilities 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/minnesota/aitkin-county