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2019 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2601st 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 Pine 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 | September 17, 2019 15:45 | September 18, 2019 03:00 | 11h 15m | 1,446 | 3,254 |
| 2 | October 3, 2019 19:45 | October 3, 2019 20:15 | 30m | 676 | 338 |
| 3 | September 30, 2019 07:00 | September 30, 2019 12:15 | 5h 15m | 511 | 1,064 |
| 4 | March 6, 2019 17:00 | March 6, 2019 17:15 | 15m | 354 | 89 |
| 5 | October 2, 2019 16:15 | October 2, 2019 16:30 | 15m | 314 | 79 |
| 6 | October 14, 2019 19:45 | October 14, 2019 20:00 | 15m | 314 | 79 |
| 7 | December 4, 2019 02:00 | December 4, 2019 03:30 | 1h 30m | 314 | 471 |
| 8 | December 7, 2019 00:45 | December 7, 2019 03:30 | 2h 45m | 248 | 682 |
| 9 | October 21, 2019 15:45 | October 21, 2019 16:30 | 45m | 191 | 143 |
| 10 | October 26, 2019 16:30 | October 26, 2019 20:15 | 3h 45m | 157 | 587 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Pine 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 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county