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2023 Beltrami County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Beltrami County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2109th 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 Beltrami 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 | August 4, 2023 13:00 | August 4, 2023 16:45 | 3h 45m | 5,351 | 4,041 |
| 2 | July 27, 2023 06:15 | July 27, 2023 10:45 | 4h 30m | 5,314 | 2,650 |
| 3 | January 25, 2023 15:45 | January 25, 2023 18:30 | 2h 45m | 5,276 | 9,162 |
| 4 | July 15, 2023 13:15 | July 17, 2023 14:00 | 2d | 4,326 | 3,072 |
| 5 | July 22, 2023 12:15 | July 22, 2023 13:30 | 1h 15m | 3,982 | 4,427 |
| 6 | May 23, 2023 20:00 | May 23, 2023 22:00 | 2h | 2,712 | 1,364 |
| 7 | June 10, 2023 00:30 | June 10, 2023 23:30 | 23h | 2,310 | 4,109 |
| 8 | December 12, 2023 21:15 | December 13, 2023 00:45 | 3h 30m | 1,372 | 656 |
| 9 | June 14, 2023 10:45 | June 16, 2023 17:15 | 2d 6h | 878 | 997 |
| 10 | August 11, 2023 22:00 | August 12, 2023 00:00 | 2h | 845 | 1,304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 66 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Beltrami 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.78 | 1.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 2.07 | 88 min | 1.10 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| Roseau Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 83 min | 0.58 | 83 min | 0.58 |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,065 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. Beltrami County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beltrami 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/beltrami-county