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2023 Carlton County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Carlton County, MN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2101st 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 Carlton 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 | April 20, 2023 17:00 | April 22, 2023 08:00 | 1d 15h | 1,951 | 9,851 |
| 2 | September 12, 2023 14:15 | September 12, 2023 17:30 | 3h 15m | 1,655 | 5,089 |
| 3 | February 14, 2023 19:45 | February 15, 2023 01:00 | 5h 15m | 1,552 | 4,228 |
| 4 | September 24, 2023 12:45 | September 24, 2023 17:30 | 4h 45m | 899 | 1,578 |
| 5 | August 15, 2023 06:15 | August 15, 2023 09:45 | 3h 30m | 890 | 2,723 |
| 6 | January 11, 2023 20:15 | January 11, 2023 22:15 | 2h | 712 | 1,197 |
| 7 | April 22, 2023 10:15 | April 22, 2023 13:45 | 3h 30m | 600 | 710 |
| 8 | May 19, 2023 13:15 | May 19, 2023 13:30 | 15m | 592 | 148 |
| 9 | February 14, 2023 08:45 | February 14, 2023 13:15 | 4h 30m | 457 | 476 |
| 10 | June 23, 2023 18:00 | June 24, 2023 06:15 | 12h 15m | 407 | 1,299 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 37 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Carlton 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 |
| Moose Lake Water & Light 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 ÷ 22,459 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. Carlton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carlton 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/carlton-county