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2022 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 21.4 hours, a total of 250K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 304th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 14, 2022 13:45 | December 19, 2022 03:00 | 4d 13h | 3,567 | 130K |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 01:45 | June 24, 2022 08:30 | 3d 6h | 1,881 | 30K |
| 3 | April 10, 2022 02:45 | April 10, 2022 03:45 | 1h | 1,668 | 508 |
| 4 | May 20, 2022 08:45 | May 20, 2022 10:00 | 1h 15m | 831 | 844 |
| 5 | May 11, 2022 22:15 | May 12, 2022 11:45 | 13h 30m | 710 | 2,302 |
| 6 | November 11, 2022 06:00 | November 11, 2022 10:45 | 4h 45m | 637 | 2,870 |
| 7 | November 19, 2022 17:15 | November 21, 2022 13:00 | 1d 19h | 637 | 28K |
| 8 | November 12, 2022 09:30 | November 12, 2022 14:30 | 5h | 636 | 3,180 |
| 9 | November 13, 2022 09:30 | November 13, 2022 17:00 | 7h 30m | 636 | 4,770 |
| 10 | June 27, 2022 20:30 | June 28, 2022 01:45 | 5h 15m | 578 | 1,191 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 47 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| East Central Energy | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 1.45 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Lake Country Power | 2022 | 26.8 hrs | 3.33 | 2.9 hrs | 1.43 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2022 | 22.1 hrs | 3.76 | 2.4 hrs | 1.86 |
| Aitkin 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/minnesota/aitkin-county