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2019 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1769th 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 Carlton 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 | December 1, 2019 01:15 | December 2, 2019 02:15 | 1d 1h | 2,461 | 18K |
| 2 | October 21, 2019 17:45 | October 22, 2019 22:00 | 1d 4h | 1,571 | 4,215 |
| 3 | April 2, 2019 14:15 | April 2, 2019 15:30 | 1h 15m | 1,557 | 1,168 |
| 4 | April 2, 2019 19:00 | April 2, 2019 19:45 | 45m | 1,557 | 1,168 |
| 5 | March 10, 2019 13:45 | March 10, 2019 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,511 | 2,813 |
| 6 | May 9, 2019 00:30 | May 10, 2019 05:00 | 1d 4h | 1,023 | 13K |
| 7 | September 4, 2019 14:00 | September 4, 2019 14:30 | 30m | 854 | 309 |
| 8 | September 17, 2019 16:30 | September 18, 2019 01:45 | 9h 15m | 847 | 1,124 |
| 9 | December 29, 2019 10:15 | December 29, 2019 18:00 | 7h 45m | 670 | 2,152 |
| 10 | March 9, 2019 16:15 | March 9, 2019 21:15 | 5h | 375 | 932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 34 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county