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2020 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2418th 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 Crow Wing 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 | September 26, 2020 18:45 | September 26, 2020 21:00 | 2h 15m | 3,591 | 7,383 |
| 2 | May 18, 2020 18:30 | May 19, 2020 02:45 | 8h 15m | 1,604 | 1,902 |
| 3 | May 6, 2020 12:45 | May 6, 2020 17:30 | 4h 45m | 1,200 | 841 |
| 4 | October 17, 2020 15:30 | October 17, 2020 17:00 | 1h 30m | 1,162 | 1,743 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 00:45 | July 10, 2020 22:30 | 1d 21h | 1,130 | 11K |
| 6 | September 14, 2020 01:45 | September 14, 2020 22:00 | 20h 15m | 1,045 | 2,246 |
| 7 | November 22, 2020 10:00 | November 23, 2020 01:30 | 15h 30m | 998 | 8,106 |
| 8 | July 7, 2020 23:15 | July 8, 2020 18:15 | 19h | 936 | 1,018 |
| 9 | September 3, 2020 09:30 | September 3, 2020 23:00 | 13h 30m | 930 | 2,379 |
| 10 | February 11, 2020 14:00 | February 11, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 838 | 497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Crow Wing 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 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 0.72 | 56 min | 0.54 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2020 | 11.9 hrs | 2.83 | 2.7 hrs | 1.80 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county