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2021 Beltrami County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Beltrami County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1983rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beltrami County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 13, 2021 21:15 | October 13, 2021 22:45 | 1h 30m | 2,656 | 1,068 |
| 2 | December 17, 2021 07:15 | December 17, 2021 09:00 | 1h 45m | 1,841 | 2,793 |
| 3 | September 22, 2021 22:45 | September 23, 2021 11:00 | 12h 15m | 1,839 | 10K |
| 4 | April 27, 2021 15:15 | April 27, 2021 21:00 | 5h 45m | 1,382 | 3,267 |
| 5 | July 19, 2021 15:45 | July 19, 2021 20:15 | 4h 30m | 1,314 | 1,978 |
| 6 | July 26, 2021 13:30 | July 28, 2021 00:15 | 1d 10h | 938 | 4,225 |
| 7 | August 10, 2021 23:00 | August 11, 2021 14:00 | 15h | 781 | 7,130 |
| 8 | March 24, 2021 12:30 | March 24, 2021 16:45 | 4h 15m | 780 | 1,303 |
| 9 | March 24, 2021 19:15 | March 24, 2021 20:30 | 1h 15m | 566 | 143 |
| 10 | October 12, 2021 23:00 | October 13, 2021 19:15 | 20h 15m | 552 | 2,024 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Beltrami County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2021 | 86 min | 1.13 | 74 min | 1.09 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Roseau Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 83 min | 0.58 | 83 min | 0.58 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,065 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. Beltrami County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beltrami County, MN annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/minnesota/beltrami-county