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2021 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1257th 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 Pine 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 28, 2021 22:00 | June 29, 2021 12:30 | 14h 30m | 3,684 | 27K |
| 2 | September 20, 2021 14:00 | September 20, 2021 19:45 | 5h 45m | 2,726 | 3,255 |
| 3 | July 4, 2021 16:15 | July 4, 2021 20:45 | 4h 30m | 2,173 | 4,789 |
| 4 | September 17, 2021 02:15 | September 17, 2021 04:15 | 2h | 1,851 | 2,266 |
| 5 | June 20, 2021 12:30 | June 21, 2021 14:00 | 1d 1h | 1,422 | 2,844 |
| 6 | December 16, 2021 02:30 | December 16, 2021 21:30 | 19h | 1,376 | 6,472 |
| 7 | June 1, 2021 15:15 | June 2, 2021 00:45 | 9h 30m | 1,149 | 7,915 |
| 8 | June 4, 2021 14:15 | June 4, 2021 17:00 | 2h 45m | 1,149 | 2,873 |
| 9 | September 29, 2021 11:30 | September 29, 2021 19:30 | 8h | 1,127 | 2,553 |
| 10 | August 15, 2021 23:00 | August 16, 2021 01:15 | 2h 15m | 1,125 | 2,529 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| East Central Energy | 2021 | 65 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.60 |
| Lake Country Power | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.7 hrs | 1.69 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county