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2023 Crow Wing County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Crow Wing County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2545th 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 Crow Wing 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 | May 7, 2023 01:30 | May 7, 2023 09:00 | 7h 30m | 3,077 | 14K |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 21:15 | June 24, 2023 01:45 | 4h 30m | 1,994 | 1,248 |
| 3 | July 7, 2023 16:00 | July 7, 2023 16:45 | 45m | 1,895 | 474 |
| 4 | May 7, 2023 14:30 | May 7, 2023 15:15 | 45m | 1,734 | 556 |
| 5 | July 31, 2023 21:30 | August 1, 2023 11:45 | 14h 15m | 1,630 | 5,770 |
| 6 | October 2, 2023 13:15 | October 2, 2023 19:15 | 6h | 1,353 | 1,748 |
| 7 | November 22, 2023 16:00 | November 22, 2023 21:15 | 5h 15m | 1,306 | 337 |
| 8 | August 25, 2023 05:45 | August 25, 2023 12:30 | 6h 45m | 1,253 | 4,045 |
| 9 | September 13, 2023 14:00 | September 13, 2023 23:30 | 9h 30m | 701 | 467 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 22:15 | August 9, 2023 01:15 | 3h | 587 | 1,468 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 77 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 Crow Wing 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 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2023 | 75 min | 0.70 | 56 min | 0.58 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2023 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 |
| Brainerd Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,618 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. Crow Wing County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Crow Wing 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/crow-wing-county