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2020 Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2216th 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 Lake 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 | June 29, 2020 13:15 | June 29, 2020 13:45 | 30m | 547 | 225 |
| 2 | July 6, 2020 21:00 | July 7, 2020 08:30 | 11h 30m | 443 | 3,768 |
| 3 | September 30, 2020 16:00 | September 30, 2020 17:15 | 1h 15m | 439 | 549 |
| 4 | July 7, 2020 10:00 | July 7, 2020 17:30 | 7h 30m | 399 | 529 |
| 5 | July 15, 2020 16:15 | July 15, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 399 | 308 |
| 6 | March 5, 2020 15:00 | March 5, 2020 19:45 | 4h 45m | 397 | 1,862 |
| 7 | August 15, 2020 02:15 | August 15, 2020 08:30 | 6h 15m | 213 | 1,331 |
| 8 | September 7, 2020 19:30 | September 7, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 213 | 53 |
| 9 | July 6, 2020 06:15 | July 6, 2020 11:45 | 5h 30m | 148 | 774 |
| 10 | July 3, 2020 00:30 | July 3, 2020 05:30 | 5h | 117 | 480 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Lake 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| Arrowhead Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Two Harbors- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,952 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county