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2021 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2457th 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 Koochiching 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 | June 4, 2021 02:00 | June 4, 2021 03:30 | 1h 30m | 1,720 | 2,037 |
| 2 | October 24, 2021 21:30 | October 25, 2021 12:30 | 15h | 1,078 | 7,292 |
| 3 | October 28, 2021 17:00 | October 28, 2021 17:15 | 15m | 1,077 | 269 |
| 4 | May 28, 2021 14:00 | May 28, 2021 17:30 | 3h 30m | 154 | 133 |
| 5 | July 24, 2021 19:00 | July 24, 2021 23:45 | 4h 45m | 154 | 544 |
| 6 | July 29, 2021 07:45 | July 29, 2021 10:45 | 3h | 118 | 354 |
| 7 | November 12, 2021 00:30 | November 13, 2021 23:45 | 1d 23h | 83 | 1,329 |
| 8 | August 21, 2021 06:00 | August 21, 2021 13:45 | 7h 45m | 69 | 535 |
| 9 | July 23, 2021 21:45 | July 24, 2021 03:00 | 5h 15m | 68 | 273 |
| 10 | August 26, 2021 16:45 | August 26, 2021 17:15 | 30m | 66 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| 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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county