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2022 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 298K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 506th 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 Carlton 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 14:30 | December 19, 2022 21:30 | 5d 7h | 7,550 | 259K |
| 2 | July 11, 2022 16:30 | July 12, 2022 01:15 | 8h 45m | 1,406 | 2,992 |
| 3 | May 18, 2022 21:15 | May 19, 2022 06:30 | 9h 15m | 1,091 | 3,723 |
| 4 | July 10, 2022 21:30 | July 11, 2022 01:00 | 3h 30m | 1,020 | 1,728 |
| 5 | November 10, 2022 14:45 | November 11, 2022 08:15 | 17h 30m | 1,015 | 1,249 |
| 6 | May 22, 2022 23:00 | May 23, 2022 01:00 | 2h | 873 | 252 |
| 7 | August 22, 2022 00:30 | August 22, 2022 11:15 | 10h 45m | 779 | 2,720 |
| 8 | November 15, 2022 21:45 | November 15, 2022 22:00 | 15m | 588 | 147 |
| 9 | January 20, 2022 18:15 | January 20, 2022 19:30 | 1h 15m | 495 | 495 |
| 10 | November 6, 2022 19:30 | November 7, 2022 17:45 | 22h 15m | 460 | 1,838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county