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2019 Chisago County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chisago County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2020th 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 Chisago 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 | March 15, 2019 15:15 | March 15, 2019 19:00 | 3h 45m | 3,479 | 4,363 |
| 2 | November 30, 2019 22:00 | December 1, 2019 00:00 | 2h | 3,243 | 1,623 |
| 3 | September 3, 2019 03:45 | September 3, 2019 23:00 | 19h 15m | 1,909 | 5,905 |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 22:15 | July 22, 2019 23:15 | 3d 1h | 1,306 | 9,559 |
| 5 | July 15, 2019 02:45 | July 16, 2019 16:30 | 1d 13h | 1,241 | 5,270 |
| 6 | July 27, 2019 04:45 | July 27, 2019 08:30 | 3h 45m | 826 | 1,865 |
| 7 | May 22, 2019 03:15 | May 23, 2019 09:00 | 1d 5h | 519 | 3,395 |
| 8 | June 30, 2019 11:30 | July 1, 2019 00:15 | 12h 45m | 411 | 2,329 |
| 9 | January 19, 2019 09:45 | January 19, 2019 13:15 | 3h 30m | 403 | 537 |
| 10 | January 23, 2019 01:15 | January 23, 2019 04:00 | 2h 45m | 314 | 472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Chisago 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
| Connexus Energy | 2018 | 40 min | 0.50 | 37 min | 0.47 |
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 ÷ 23,550 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. Chisago County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chisago 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/chisago-county