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2020 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1203rd 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 Carlton 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 | February 28, 2020 17:00 | February 28, 2020 18:30 | 1h 30m | 4,706 | 5,623 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 05:30 | March 31, 2020 05:00 | 1d 23h | 4,527 | 58K |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 00:15 | August 17, 2020 21:15 | 2d 21h | 4,418 | 28K |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 02:00 | July 9, 2020 18:15 | 16h 15m | 1,628 | 8,641 |
| 5 | September 3, 2020 05:00 | September 3, 2020 06:30 | 1h 30m | 1,254 | 1,254 |
| 6 | October 8, 2020 16:00 | October 9, 2020 23:00 | 1d 7h | 1,116 | 4,706 |
| 7 | October 21, 2020 02:45 | October 21, 2020 06:00 | 3h 15m | 1,052 | 1,134 |
| 8 | August 8, 2020 04:45 | August 9, 2020 09:15 | 1d 4h | 848 | 2,776 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 13:00 | May 18, 2020 13:15 | 15m | 825 | 206 |
| 10 | August 21, 2020 15:15 | August 21, 2020 18:15 | 3h | 637 | 365 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 49 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county