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2020 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1260th 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 Itasca 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 | April 23, 2020 14:15 | April 23, 2020 22:00 | 7h 45m | 3,571 | 19K |
| 2 | April 20, 2020 13:45 | April 20, 2020 19:45 | 6h | 1,864 | 10K |
| 3 | September 25, 2020 12:45 | September 25, 2020 15:00 | 2h 15m | 1,759 | 2,700 |
| 4 | August 14, 2020 20:15 | August 17, 2020 11:30 | 2d 15h | 1,364 | 6,533 |
| 5 | September 14, 2020 20:15 | September 15, 2020 01:30 | 5h 15m | 1,184 | 1,482 |
| 6 | September 2, 2020 15:15 | September 3, 2020 01:00 | 9h 45m | 1,089 | 4,504 |
| 7 | October 21, 2020 14:45 | October 21, 2020 20:15 | 5h 30m | 1,063 | 3,702 |
| 8 | July 13, 2020 13:15 | July 14, 2020 22:45 | 1d 9h | 1,025 | 4,372 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 00:00 | May 11, 2020 01:15 | 1h 15m | 1,003 | 808 |
| 10 | May 1, 2020 14:00 | May 1, 2020 21:00 | 7h | 970 | 5,260 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 60 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2020 | 7.1 hrs | 2.44 | 3.0 hrs | 1.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin 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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county