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2023 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1783rd 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 Pine 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 | March 11, 2023 22:15 | March 13, 2023 12:00 | 1d 13h | 2,139 | 15K |
| 2 | April 4, 2023 18:30 | April 4, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 2,077 | 519 |
| 3 | April 6, 2023 13:15 | April 6, 2023 14:00 | 45m | 2,077 | 1,039 |
| 4 | April 5, 2023 15:15 | April 5, 2023 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,880 | 1,412 |
| 5 | October 17, 2023 13:45 | October 17, 2023 21:15 | 7h 30m | 845 | 469 |
| 6 | November 14, 2023 15:15 | November 14, 2023 20:00 | 4h 45m | 767 | 205 |
| 7 | September 19, 2023 15:45 | September 19, 2023 20:00 | 4h 15m | 766 | 207 |
| 8 | November 5, 2023 23:45 | November 6, 2023 05:30 | 5h 45m | 750 | 940 |
| 9 | July 27, 2023 20:30 | July 28, 2023 14:15 | 17h 45m | 721 | 3,512 |
| 10 | March 26, 2023 12:15 | March 26, 2023 13:30 | 1h 15m | 712 | 686 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 36 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 Pine 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Lake Country Power | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,386 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. Pine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pine 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/pine-county