County annual report · FIPS 27061
2019 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1986th 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 Itasca 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 26, 2019 23:00 | March 27, 2019 00:15 | 1h 15m | 4,218 | 3,847 |
| 2 | August 22, 2019 10:30 | August 22, 2019 16:45 | 6h 15m | 2,180 | 1,647 |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 14:45 | October 22, 2019 23:00 | 1d 8h | 1,640 | 9,684 |
| 4 | March 13, 2019 21:45 | March 14, 2019 00:15 | 2h 30m | 1,570 | 1,425 |
| 5 | August 29, 2019 19:15 | August 29, 2019 20:00 | 45m | 819 | 206 |
| 6 | June 30, 2019 07:30 | June 30, 2019 20:45 | 13h 15m | 800 | 3,540 |
| 7 | March 10, 2019 10:45 | March 10, 2019 12:00 | 1h 15m | 742 | 928 |
| 8 | June 4, 2019 23:00 | June 5, 2019 10:00 | 11h | 678 | 2,197 |
| 9 | April 2, 2019 22:45 | April 3, 2019 05:30 | 6h 45m | 673 | 3,323 |
| 10 | April 3, 2019 12:15 | April 3, 2019 12:30 | 15m | 671 | 168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 34 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Itasca 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 |
| 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 Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county