County annual report · FIPS 27075
2019 Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 28.3 hours, a total of 169K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 119th 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 Lake 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 | April 10, 2019 12:00 | April 17, 2019 22:30 | 7d 10h | 2,787 | 147K |
| 2 | July 18, 2019 23:15 | July 19, 2019 00:00 | 45m | 1,792 | 448 |
| 3 | January 4, 2019 16:15 | January 4, 2019 18:00 | 1h 45m | 1,785 | 3,052 |
| 4 | November 7, 2019 23:45 | November 8, 2019 00:15 | 30m | 1,096 | 548 |
| 5 | November 1, 2019 00:45 | November 1, 2019 01:15 | 30m | 1,095 | 536 |
| 6 | May 9, 2019 07:15 | July 2, 2019 13:00 | 54d 5h | 434 | 5,232 |
| 7 | July 20, 2019 12:15 | July 20, 2019 22:30 | 10h 15m | 429 | 937 |
| 8 | July 23, 2019 19:30 | July 24, 2019 20:45 | 1d 1h | 301 | 420 |
| 9 | April 23, 2019 13:00 | May 9, 2019 06:30 | 15d 17h | 207 | 2,305 |
| 10 | November 21, 2019 04:00 | November 22, 2019 16:15 | 1d 12h | 185 | 1,609 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 13 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 Lake 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| Arrowhead Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Two Harbors- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,952 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county