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2020 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1180th 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 Pine 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 16, 2020 13:30 | September 16, 2020 16:15 | 2h 45m | 5,780 | 4,395 |
| 2 | August 15, 2020 00:00 | August 16, 2020 09:30 | 1d 9h | 4,558 | 40K |
| 3 | October 21, 2020 04:30 | October 21, 2020 06:15 | 1h 45m | 3,633 | 4,009 |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 03:15 | March 30, 2020 21:45 | 1d 18h | 3,393 | 16K |
| 5 | August 21, 2020 13:30 | August 21, 2020 23:15 | 9h 45m | 2,480 | 3,364 |
| 6 | October 21, 2020 14:45 | October 21, 2020 17:45 | 3h | 1,345 | 339 |
| 7 | November 5, 2020 16:30 | November 5, 2020 19:30 | 3h | 1,143 | 289 |
| 8 | August 9, 2020 11:30 | August 9, 2020 23:15 | 11h 45m | 1,098 | 3,393 |
| 9 | August 13, 2020 16:00 | August 14, 2020 01:30 | 9h 30m | 1,092 | 6,998 |
| 10 | November 18, 2020 15:45 | November 18, 2020 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,062 | 800 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
| Lake Country Power | 2020 | 7.1 hrs | 2.44 | 3.0 hrs | 1.68 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county