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2021 Mille Lacs County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mille Lacs County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2345th 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 Mille Lacs 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 | April 17, 2021 15:00 | April 17, 2021 18:15 | 3h 15m | 4,548 | 12K |
| 2 | March 6, 2021 16:00 | March 6, 2021 18:00 | 2h | 1,596 | 2,965 |
| 3 | November 9, 2021 15:30 | November 9, 2021 17:45 | 2h 15m | 1,298 | 349 |
| 4 | November 24, 2021 00:30 | November 24, 2021 01:00 | 30m | 691 | 346 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 19:15 | December 12, 2021 00:30 | 5h 15m | 691 | 2,043 |
| 6 | February 24, 2021 21:00 | February 25, 2021 05:15 | 8h 15m | 688 | 5,591 |
| 7 | December 16, 2021 07:45 | December 16, 2021 11:30 | 3h 45m | 491 | 917 |
| 8 | August 17, 2021 22:15 | August 17, 2021 22:30 | 15m | 490 | 123 |
| 9 | April 21, 2021 06:30 | April 21, 2021 08:45 | 2h 15m | 219 | 384 |
| 10 | September 17, 2021 07:00 | September 17, 2021 10:15 | 3h 15m | 157 | 353 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 13 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 Mille Lacs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2021 | 65 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.60 |
| Connexus Energy | 2021 | 39 min | 0.50 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.29 |
| Princeton Public Utils Comm | 2018 | 38 min | 0.18 | 8 min | 0.10 |
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 ÷ 16,515 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. Mille Lacs County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mille Lacs 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/mille-lacs-county