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2021 Lake County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lake County, MN went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1786th 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 Lake 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 00:15 | July 25, 2021 22:15 | 1d 22h | 1,100 | 11K |
| 2 | June 6, 2021 17:15 | June 6, 2021 21:30 | 4h 15m | 445 | 1,692 |
| 3 | April 10, 2021 01:30 | April 12, 2021 11:45 | 2d 10h | 122 | 4,789 |
| 4 | April 9, 2021 17:45 | April 9, 2021 18:30 | 45m | 83 | 34 |
| 5 | November 9, 2021 16:15 | November 9, 2021 22:30 | 6h 15m | 66 | 271 |
| 6 | September 18, 2021 16:45 | September 18, 2021 18:45 | 2h | 65 | 59 |
| 7 | August 11, 2021 12:45 | August 11, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 54 | 53 |
| 8 | December 16, 2021 11:15 | December 16, 2021 18:30 | 7h 15m | 54 | 253 |
| 9 | July 23, 2021 13:15 | July 23, 2021 17:30 | 4h 15m | 52 | 55 |
| 10 | July 29, 2021 18:00 | July 29, 2021 21:15 | 3h 15m | 52 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lake 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 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| Arrowhead Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Two Harbors- (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,952 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county