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2022 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 515K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 283rd 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 Itasca 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 | May 30, 2022 23:45 | June 3, 2022 14:00 | 3d 14h | 7,982 | 141K |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 01:45 | June 24, 2022 05:15 | 3d 3h | 7,095 | 126K |
| 3 | May 17, 2022 13:15 | May 17, 2022 16:00 | 2h 45m | 2,881 | 6,756 |
| 4 | December 15, 2022 09:30 | December 18, 2022 23:30 | 3d 14h | 2,357 | 87K |
| 5 | May 18, 2022 12:30 | May 18, 2022 14:45 | 2h 15m | 2,079 | 2,600 |
| 6 | May 18, 2022 17:00 | May 19, 2022 12:15 | 19h 15m | 1,873 | 9,593 |
| 7 | August 1, 2022 12:30 | August 1, 2022 12:45 | 15m | 1,341 | 335 |
| 8 | June 25, 2022 04:30 | June 27, 2022 02:00 | 1d 21h | 1,300 | 14K |
| 9 | July 31, 2022 22:45 | August 1, 2022 10:15 | 11h 30m | 1,284 | 575 |
| 10 | November 21, 2022 15:30 | November 21, 2022 21:45 | 6h 15m | 1,260 | 5,495 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 71 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2022 | 26.8 hrs | 3.33 | 2.9 hrs | 1.43 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county