County annual report · FIPS 27061
2023 Itasca County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Itasca County, MN went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1315th 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 Itasca 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 29, 2023 00:30 | July 31, 2023 02:30 | 2d 2h | 2,267 | 8,411 |
| 2 | August 10, 2023 12:15 | August 10, 2023 17:15 | 5h | 2,257 | 7,006 |
| 3 | November 15, 2023 19:15 | November 15, 2023 23:00 | 3h 45m | 1,664 | 1,835 |
| 4 | August 21, 2023 14:00 | August 21, 2023 14:30 | 30m | 1,509 | 378 |
| 5 | April 27, 2023 04:00 | April 27, 2023 08:30 | 4h 30m | 857 | 3,021 |
| 6 | August 31, 2023 18:45 | September 1, 2023 03:30 | 8h 45m | 704 | 4,406 |
| 7 | December 15, 2023 19:30 | December 16, 2023 01:45 | 6h 15m | 619 | 2,318 |
| 8 | May 6, 2023 18:00 | May 7, 2023 17:00 | 23h | 596 | 1,820 |
| 9 | July 26, 2023 12:45 | July 26, 2023 19:30 | 6h 45m | 542 | 691 |
| 10 | February 7, 2023 14:45 | February 7, 2023 16:45 | 2h | 515 | 901 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 48 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Itasca 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 2.07 | 88 min | 1.10 |
| North Itasca Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nashwauk - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Rapids Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keewatin 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 ÷ 22,613 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. Itasca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Itasca 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/itasca-county