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2020 Mille Lacs County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mille Lacs County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2199th 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 Mille Lacs 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 20:30 | September 26, 2020 23:00 | 2h 30m | 4,552 | 7,426 |
| 2 | August 14, 2020 23:30 | August 16, 2020 03:45 | 1d 4h | 1,910 | 5,474 |
| 3 | March 29, 2020 04:45 | March 31, 2020 02:45 | 1d 22h | 1,259 | 15K |
| 4 | November 21, 2020 21:00 | November 21, 2020 23:15 | 2h 15m | 666 | 833 |
| 5 | July 18, 2020 05:45 | July 19, 2020 15:30 | 1d 9h | 359 | 2,253 |
| 6 | December 22, 2020 19:30 | December 22, 2020 21:30 | 2h | 344 | 217 |
| 7 | May 18, 2020 16:15 | May 18, 2020 21:00 | 4h 45m | 262 | 250 |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 21:15 | June 30, 2020 05:00 | 7h 45m | 86 | 243 |
| 9 | June 29, 2020 01:15 | June 29, 2020 04:30 | 3h 15m | 85 | 156 |
| 10 | December 23, 2020 17:00 | December 24, 2020 01:15 | 8h 15m | 77 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Mille Lacs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
| Connexus Energy | 2020 | 30 min | 0.43 | 27 min | 0.40 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2020 | 11.9 hrs | 2.83 | 2.7 hrs | 1.80 |
| Princeton Public Utils Comm | 2018 | 38 min | 0.18 | 8 min | 0.10 |
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 ÷ 16,515 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. Mille Lacs County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mille Lacs 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/mille-lacs-county