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2024 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 18.3 hours, a total of 214K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 557th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 5, 2024 17:45 | October 6, 2024 00:30 | 6h 45m | 3,696 | 22K |
| 2 | July 17, 2024 13:00 | July 17, 2024 15:15 | 2h 15m | 2,132 | 1,069 |
| 3 | July 31, 2024 21:30 | August 1, 2024 00:00 | 2h 30m | 1,815 | 2,098 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 02:30 | August 1, 2024 03:00 | 30m | 1,209 | 575 |
| 5 | July 29, 2024 13:30 | July 29, 2024 15:30 | 2h | 1,044 | 1,612 |
| 6 | July 30, 2024 14:15 | July 30, 2024 18:30 | 4h 15m | 1,044 | 4,177 |
| 7 | June 22, 2024 05:15 | June 24, 2024 12:15 | 2d 7h | 1,026 | 55K |
| 8 | January 15, 2024 03:30 | January 15, 2024 13:15 | 9h 45m | 984 | 9,594 |
| 9 | February 21, 2024 09:15 | February 21, 2024 11:45 | 2h 30m | 971 | 1,518 |
| 10 | May 11, 2024 01:30 | May 11, 2024 02:30 | 1h | 959 | 959 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 54 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
| Lake Country Power | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 2.31 | 3.1 hrs | 1.52 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 10.41 | 2.6 hrs | 1.22 |
| Aitkin Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/minnesota/aitkin-county