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2022 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 898K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1029th 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 St. Louis 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 | April 13, 2022 01:00 | April 14, 2022 18:15 | 1d 17h | 11,356 | 45K |
| 2 | June 20, 2022 23:15 | June 28, 2022 03:00 | 7d 3h | 9,065 | 233K |
| 3 | December 14, 2022 05:30 | December 20, 2022 12:15 | 6d 6h | 7,856 | 222K |
| 4 | May 31, 2022 00:30 | June 10, 2022 20:30 | 10d 20h | 6,041 | 101K |
| 5 | August 2, 2022 05:45 | August 3, 2022 03:00 | 21h 15m | 3,621 | 1,121 |
| 6 | May 18, 2022 14:15 | May 19, 2022 20:45 | 1d 6h | 3,145 | 9,837 |
| 7 | May 6, 2022 21:45 | May 16, 2022 23:30 | 10d 1h | 2,903 | 62K |
| 8 | June 29, 2022 11:15 | July 1, 2022 03:15 | 1d 16h | 2,594 | 4,911 |
| 9 | July 10, 2022 15:30 | July 11, 2022 04:15 | 12h 45m | 2,523 | 3,612 |
| 10 | November 6, 2022 19:15 | November 8, 2022 19:15 | 2d | 2,519 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 140 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor 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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county