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2019 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,447 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2716th 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 Koochiching 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 | January 10, 2019 15:45 | January 10, 2019 16:15 | 30m | 857 | 429 |
| 2 | March 26, 2019 17:00 | March 26, 2019 17:15 | 15m | 732 | 183 |
| 3 | January 27, 2019 12:15 | January 27, 2019 15:45 | 3h 30m | 218 | 491 |
| 4 | March 27, 2019 22:45 | March 27, 2019 23:00 | 15m | 218 | 55 |
| 5 | November 21, 2019 03:00 | November 21, 2019 12:45 | 9h 45m | 154 | 746 |
| 6 | January 20, 2019 16:30 | January 20, 2019 16:45 | 15m | 130 | 33 |
| 7 | November 21, 2019 14:15 | November 21, 2019 20:30 | 6h 15m | 85 | 193 |
| 8 | October 6, 2019 04:30 | October 6, 2019 09:00 | 4h 30m | 68 | 306 |
| 9 | March 10, 2019 10:45 | March 10, 2019 14:30 | 3h 45m | 59 | 169 |
| 10 | March 13, 2019 23:00 | March 13, 2019 23:30 | 30m | 56 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county