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2022 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 29.8 hours, a total of 489K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 175th 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 Pine 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 11:00 | June 3, 2022 00:00 | 3d 13h | 9,417 | 102K |
| 2 | December 14, 2022 07:15 | December 20, 2022 19:15 | 6d 12h | 6,335 | 314K |
| 3 | July 10, 2022 21:30 | July 11, 2022 11:00 | 13h 30m | 3,928 | 9,080 |
| 4 | October 20, 2022 11:30 | October 20, 2022 17:15 | 5h 45m | 3,290 | 2,760 |
| 5 | October 24, 2022 16:30 | October 24, 2022 17:00 | 30m | 3,287 | 827 |
| 6 | July 11, 2022 12:45 | July 11, 2022 23:00 | 10h 15m | 2,684 | 4,382 |
| 7 | August 10, 2022 12:00 | August 10, 2022 20:45 | 8h 45m | 2,337 | 1,789 |
| 8 | May 19, 2022 13:15 | May 20, 2022 12:15 | 23h | 1,951 | 3,917 |
| 9 | March 26, 2022 14:15 | March 26, 2022 15:30 | 1h 15m | 1,124 | 1,126 |
| 10 | March 24, 2022 18:45 | March 24, 2022 22:15 | 3h 30m | 1,123 | 285 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 62 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county