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2023 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1596th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 12, 2023 07:15 | March 13, 2023 12:00 | 1d 4h | 833 | 2,125 |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 14:00 | April 5, 2023 16:00 | 2h | 832 | 625 |
| 3 | May 1, 2023 20:45 | May 1, 2023 22:15 | 1h 30m | 636 | 954 |
| 4 | February 16, 2023 08:30 | February 16, 2023 13:00 | 4h 30m | 635 | 2,858 |
| 5 | July 27, 2023 22:30 | July 28, 2023 12:00 | 13h 30m | 621 | 492 |
| 6 | May 3, 2023 14:00 | May 3, 2023 15:00 | 1h | 564 | 145 |
| 7 | March 29, 2023 16:15 | March 30, 2023 00:15 | 8h | 497 | 1,654 |
| 8 | August 8, 2023 20:45 | August 9, 2023 00:45 | 4h | 373 | 1,165 |
| 9 | August 14, 2023 20:15 | August 14, 2023 20:30 | 15m | 250 | 63 |
| 10 | June 14, 2023 14:15 | June 14, 2023 14:45 | 30m | 237 | 119 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Lake Country Power | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2023 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 |
| Aitkin 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/minnesota/aitkin-county