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2021 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2007th 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 Crow Wing 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 | July 24, 2021 07:45 | July 25, 2021 02:45 | 19h | 2,966 | 13K |
| 2 | April 14, 2021 13:45 | April 14, 2021 20:00 | 6h 15m | 2,596 | 12K |
| 3 | August 14, 2021 18:30 | August 16, 2021 12:30 | 1d 18h | 2,307 | 3,893 |
| 4 | April 7, 2021 13:30 | April 7, 2021 20:45 | 7h 15m | 2,158 | 3,512 |
| 5 | April 1, 2021 13:45 | April 1, 2021 19:30 | 5h 45m | 1,968 | 5,918 |
| 6 | February 22, 2021 14:45 | February 22, 2021 15:45 | 1h | 1,939 | 1,832 |
| 7 | September 18, 2021 14:30 | September 20, 2021 18:45 | 2d 4h | 1,877 | 3,726 |
| 8 | September 14, 2021 04:15 | September 14, 2021 11:00 | 6h 45m | 1,829 | 5,690 |
| 9 | August 11, 2021 04:45 | August 11, 2021 08:30 | 3h 45m | 1,801 | 5,948 |
| 10 | April 28, 2021 13:30 | April 28, 2021 20:30 | 7h | 1,441 | 4,482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 71 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Crow Wing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 0.86 | 84 min | 0.84 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.29 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county