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2020 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 5,176 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2808th 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 Koochiching 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 7, 2020 05:15 | August 7, 2020 06:15 | 1h | 2,210 | 2,166 |
| 2 | August 7, 2020 20:15 | August 7, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 899 | 225 |
| 3 | April 26, 2020 12:30 | April 26, 2020 14:15 | 1h 45m | 272 | 444 |
| 4 | October 14, 2020 17:15 | October 14, 2020 19:45 | 2h 30m | 200 | 84 |
| 5 | June 7, 2020 18:15 | June 8, 2020 00:45 | 6h 30m | 132 | 462 |
| 6 | February 24, 2020 17:45 | February 24, 2020 21:00 | 3h 15m | 102 | 120 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 15:15 | April 9, 2020 15:30 | 15m | 102 | 26 |
| 8 | September 5, 2020 14:15 | September 5, 2020 15:45 | 1h 30m | 77 | 102 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 13:15 | June 10, 2020 16:30 | 3h 15m | 71 | 229 |
| 10 | April 14, 2020 20:00 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | 45m | 33 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| 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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county