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2021 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1023rd 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 Itasca 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 26, 2021 23:45 | July 29, 2021 12:30 | 2d 12h | 4,578 | 48K |
| 2 | April 19, 2021 14:00 | April 19, 2021 17:45 | 3h 45m | 2,938 | 5,389 |
| 3 | February 19, 2021 20:15 | February 20, 2021 07:30 | 11h 15m | 2,397 | 3,872 |
| 4 | September 18, 2021 15:15 | September 21, 2021 04:30 | 2d 13h | 1,800 | 8,923 |
| 5 | May 3, 2021 15:45 | May 4, 2021 12:15 | 20h 30m | 1,746 | 3,775 |
| 6 | June 20, 2021 22:00 | June 21, 2021 22:15 | 1d | 1,486 | 20K |
| 7 | October 27, 2021 21:45 | October 28, 2021 19:45 | 22h | 1,241 | 6,162 |
| 8 | October 15, 2021 18:30 | October 15, 2021 19:45 | 1h 15m | 1,095 | 1,369 |
| 9 | July 23, 2021 23:45 | July 24, 2021 14:30 | 14h 45m | 818 | 3,446 |
| 10 | April 29, 2021 17:45 | April 29, 2021 19:30 | 1h 45m | 762 | 986 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 66 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.7 hrs | 1.69 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin 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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county