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2021 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 514K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 1529th 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 St. Louis 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 20:00 | July 28, 2021 00:45 | 1d 4h | 10,565 | 39K |
| 2 | June 26, 2021 11:00 | June 27, 2021 14:30 | 1d 3h | 4,532 | 4,694 |
| 3 | June 14, 2021 20:15 | June 16, 2021 20:30 | 2d | 4,397 | 26K |
| 4 | May 25, 2021 19:00 | May 26, 2021 09:30 | 14h 30m | 3,631 | 11K |
| 5 | July 23, 2021 22:45 | July 26, 2021 02:45 | 2d 4h | 3,476 | 36K |
| 6 | June 5, 2021 04:15 | June 9, 2021 01:00 | 3d 20h | 3,032 | 16K |
| 7 | June 17, 2021 01:15 | June 18, 2021 13:45 | 1d 12h | 2,853 | 13K |
| 8 | June 18, 2021 14:30 | June 21, 2021 20:30 | 3d 6h | 2,768 | 16K |
| 9 | September 14, 2021 07:30 | September 14, 2021 10:15 | 2h 45m | 2,748 | 3,011 |
| 10 | September 6, 2021 13:45 | September 10, 2021 05:00 | 3d 15h | 2,555 | 6,467 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 160 reached 100+ customers, 34 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county