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2020 Beltrami County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Beltrami County, MN went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1887th 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 Beltrami 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 | August 14, 2020 03:30 | August 14, 2020 20:00 | 16h 30m | 8,572 | 15K |
| 2 | June 5, 2020 20:30 | June 8, 2020 00:15 | 2d 3h | 8,017 | 5,422 |
| 3 | September 3, 2020 03:30 | September 3, 2020 10:45 | 7h 15m | 3,974 | 6,055 |
| 4 | August 20, 2020 09:15 | August 20, 2020 19:00 | 9h 45m | 3,037 | 1,829 |
| 5 | September 4, 2020 08:45 | September 7, 2020 22:45 | 3d 14h | 1,926 | 5,609 |
| 6 | July 17, 2020 22:15 | July 18, 2020 02:45 | 4h 30m | 1,823 | 3,386 |
| 7 | February 26, 2020 16:00 | February 26, 2020 17:30 | 1h 30m | 1,286 | 325 |
| 8 | June 9, 2020 09:45 | June 9, 2020 20:45 | 11h | 1,072 | 4,022 |
| 9 | November 29, 2020 15:15 | November 30, 2020 13:45 | 22h 30m | 784 | 992 |
| 10 | July 3, 2020 01:15 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | 3d 20h | 781 | 778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 50 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Beltrami 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Roseau Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 83 min | 0.58 | 83 min | 0.58 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,065 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. Beltrami County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beltrami 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/beltrami-county