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2023 Mille Lacs County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mille Lacs County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 6,706 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2842nd 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 Mille Lacs 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 | February 13, 2023 17:15 | February 13, 2023 18:00 | 45m | 690 | 173 |
| 2 | May 17, 2023 00:00 | May 17, 2023 00:15 | 15m | 427 | 107 |
| 3 | December 23, 2023 12:15 | December 23, 2023 15:45 | 3h 30m | 426 | 814 |
| 4 | August 16, 2023 21:45 | August 16, 2023 23:45 | 2h | 281 | 422 |
| 5 | July 19, 2023 22:45 | July 20, 2023 08:00 | 9h 15m | 187 | 582 |
| 6 | May 23, 2023 12:00 | May 23, 2023 18:45 | 6h 45m | 172 | 285 |
| 7 | April 24, 2023 13:15 | April 24, 2023 14:00 | 45m | 167 | 42 |
| 8 | February 23, 2023 12:30 | February 23, 2023 19:15 | 6h 45m | 135 | 407 |
| 9 | April 13, 2023 01:45 | April 13, 2023 04:45 | 3h | 101 | 303 |
| 10 | August 14, 2023 03:00 | August 14, 2023 09:00 | 6h | 101 | 253 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 10 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 Mille Lacs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Connexus Energy | 2023 | 55 min | 0.62 | 26 min | 0.29 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2023 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 | 2.6 hrs | 1.18 |
| Princeton Public Utils Comm | 2018 | 38 min | 0.18 | 8 min | 0.10 |
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 ÷ 16,515 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. Mille Lacs County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mille Lacs 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/mille-lacs-county