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2023 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,011 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2884th 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 Koochiching 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 | September 12, 2023 18:15 | September 12, 2023 20:00 | 1h 45m | 454 | 172 |
| 2 | December 4, 2023 15:15 | December 4, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 110 | 82 |
| 3 | July 4, 2023 14:45 | July 4, 2023 18:00 | 3h 15m | 66 | 215 |
| 4 | December 24, 2023 13:45 | December 24, 2023 17:00 | 3h 15m | 56 | 182 |
| 5 | June 27, 2023 23:00 | June 28, 2023 00:15 | 1h 15m | 49 | 61 |
| 6 | September 17, 2023 04:00 | September 17, 2023 15:30 | 11h 30m | 49 | 54 |
| 7 | July 17, 2023 12:45 | July 17, 2023 13:45 | 1h | 48 | 48 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 14:30 | July 25, 2023 16:30 | 2h | 38 | 74 |
| 9 | February 12, 2023 19:00 | February 12, 2023 22:45 | 3h 45m | 33 | 124 |
| 10 | June 2, 2023 12:00 | June 2, 2023 16:30 | 4h 30m | 31 | 27 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Koochiching 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 Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| 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 ÷ 9,083 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. Koochiching County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Koochiching 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/koochiching-county