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2020 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 812th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2020
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 29, 2020 05:00 | March 31, 2020 00:45 | 1d 19h | 3,722 | 66K |
| 2 | August 8, 2020 02:45 | August 9, 2020 10:00 | 1d 7h | 1,791 | 15K |
| 3 | July 9, 2020 01:45 | July 10, 2020 04:15 | 1d 2h | 1,186 | 5,913 |
| 4 | August 6, 2020 18:45 | August 6, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 1,160 | 290 |
| 5 | October 21, 2020 04:30 | October 21, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 810 | 1,112 |
| 6 | November 4, 2020 16:45 | November 4, 2020 19:00 | 2h 15m | 619 | 1,393 |
| 7 | June 26, 2020 11:45 | June 26, 2020 13:15 | 1h 30m | 540 | 421 |
| 8 | August 14, 2020 23:45 | August 17, 2020 11:30 | 2d 11h | 514 | 4,924 |
| 9 | October 12, 2020 09:30 | October 12, 2020 13:15 | 3h 45m | 487 | 1,139 |
| 10 | May 2, 2020 18:00 | May 2, 2020 21:15 | 3h 15m | 367 | 1,188 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
| Lake Country Power | 2020 | 7.1 hrs | 2.44 | 3.0 hrs | 1.68 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2020 | 11.9 hrs | 2.83 | 2.7 hrs | 1.80 |
| Aitkin 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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/minnesota/aitkin-county