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2020 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 418K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1788th 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 St. Louis 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 | March 29, 2020 07:15 | March 31, 2020 03:15 | 1d 20h | 7,446 | 70K |
| 2 | July 25, 2020 20:45 | July 26, 2020 23:15 | 1d 2h | 6,865 | 22K |
| 3 | February 13, 2020 00:00 | February 13, 2020 01:00 | 1h | 6,099 | 2,873 |
| 4 | May 26, 2020 14:00 | May 27, 2020 19:45 | 1d 5h | 5,677 | 3,674 |
| 5 | January 22, 2020 15:00 | January 22, 2020 22:00 | 7h | 4,664 | 3,324 |
| 6 | February 4, 2020 16:15 | February 4, 2020 20:45 | 4h 30m | 4,299 | 3,078 |
| 7 | August 29, 2020 10:30 | September 1, 2020 00:15 | 2d 13h | 3,361 | 9,365 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 09:00 | June 11, 2020 04:15 | 19h 15m | 3,313 | 16K |
| 9 | July 2, 2020 20:45 | July 10, 2020 18:30 | 7d 21h | 3,307 | 36K |
| 10 | April 20, 2020 12:45 | April 21, 2020 13:00 | 1d | 3,159 | 5,715 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 144 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county