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2019 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 1959th 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 St. Louis 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 | October 21, 2019 13:30 | October 23, 2019 06:15 | 1d 16h | 8,195 | 34K |
| 2 | November 14, 2019 14:45 | November 14, 2019 23:45 | 9h | 6,312 | 7,458 |
| 3 | December 29, 2019 01:00 | December 30, 2019 10:15 | 1d 9h | 4,690 | 26K |
| 4 | March 16, 2019 10:30 | March 16, 2019 16:15 | 5h 45m | 3,958 | 14K |
| 5 | November 26, 2019 14:00 | November 27, 2019 05:45 | 15h 45m | 2,617 | 2,321 |
| 6 | January 7, 2019 06:00 | January 7, 2019 20:15 | 14h 15m | 2,308 | 4,364 |
| 7 | October 7, 2019 18:00 | October 9, 2019 02:45 | 1d 8h | 2,042 | 3,563 |
| 8 | November 21, 2019 03:00 | November 24, 2019 06:30 | 3d 3h | 1,917 | 22K |
| 9 | July 18, 2019 23:30 | July 19, 2019 02:15 | 2h 45m | 1,794 | 454 |
| 10 | September 21, 2019 21:30 | September 22, 2019 02:45 | 5h 15m | 1,778 | 1,694 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 125 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county