County annual report · FIPS 27025
2023 Chisago County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chisago County, MN went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1523rd 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 Chisago 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 | July 27, 2023 19:30 | July 29, 2023 21:00 | 2d 1h | 6,884 | 4,952 |
| 2 | June 7, 2023 14:15 | June 7, 2023 15:45 | 1h 30m | 6,776 | 6,776 |
| 3 | December 18, 2023 10:45 | December 18, 2023 13:45 | 3h | 6,207 | 14K |
| 4 | September 29, 2023 10:45 | September 30, 2023 08:45 | 22h | 4,392 | 4,439 |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 20:00 | August 12, 2023 15:45 | 19h 45m | 4,178 | 4,001 |
| 6 | June 25, 2023 05:15 | June 25, 2023 19:00 | 13h 45m | 3,334 | 13K |
| 7 | September 3, 2023 20:45 | September 4, 2023 06:00 | 9h 15m | 3,155 | 7,136 |
| 8 | October 13, 2023 09:30 | October 13, 2023 17:15 | 7h 45m | 2,232 | 8,896 |
| 9 | March 30, 2023 23:00 | March 31, 2023 01:45 | 2h 45m | 2,065 | 1,600 |
| 10 | July 19, 2023 22:00 | July 20, 2023 20:00 | 22h | 1,418 | 3,389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Chisago 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Connexus Energy | 2023 | 55 min | 0.62 | 26 min | 0.29 |
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 ÷ 23,550 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. Chisago County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chisago 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/chisago-county