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2022 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2629th 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 Koochiching 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 | July 18, 2022 05:45 | July 18, 2022 22:45 | 17h | 667 | 3,947 |
| 2 | May 31, 2022 00:15 | June 2, 2022 04:00 | 2d 3h | 425 | 2,815 |
| 3 | August 24, 2022 23:00 | August 25, 2022 00:30 | 1h 30m | 120 | 180 |
| 4 | March 23, 2022 06:45 | March 23, 2022 12:15 | 5h 30m | 119 | 627 |
| 5 | April 14, 2022 09:00 | April 14, 2022 09:45 | 45m | 119 | 89 |
| 6 | May 14, 2022 17:45 | May 15, 2022 03:30 | 9h 45m | 116 | 675 |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 16:15 | January 3, 2022 17:45 | 1h 30m | 113 | 170 |
| 8 | July 1, 2022 00:45 | July 1, 2022 01:45 | 1h | 88 | 88 |
| 9 | July 11, 2022 13:00 | July 11, 2022 14:00 | 1h | 88 | 88 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 18:15 | December 23, 2022 20:15 | 2h | 47 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county