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2024 Koochiching County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Koochiching County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2438th 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 Koochiching 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 | June 17, 2024 17:00 | June 17, 2024 19:00 | 2h | 4,815 | 4,383 |
| 2 | September 2, 2024 03:15 | September 2, 2024 11:30 | 8h 15m | 1,389 | 9,722 |
| 3 | November 11, 2024 06:00 | November 11, 2024 10:30 | 4h 30m | 167 | 492 |
| 4 | March 4, 2024 04:15 | March 4, 2024 13:45 | 9h 30m | 151 | 328 |
| 5 | August 20, 2024 15:30 | August 20, 2024 17:15 | 1h 45m | 107 | 33 |
| 6 | June 11, 2024 15:30 | June 11, 2024 19:00 | 3h 30m | 80 | 203 |
| 7 | October 1, 2024 00:45 | October 1, 2024 03:30 | 2h 45m | 78 | 215 |
| 8 | October 14, 2024 15:30 | October 14, 2024 17:00 | 1h 30m | 69 | 104 |
| 9 | September 11, 2024 13:15 | September 11, 2024 19:15 | 6h | 60 | 168 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 15:00 | August 6, 2024 15:45 | 45m | 59 | 30 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Lake Country Power | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 2.31 | 3.1 hrs | 1.52 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.31 | 1.6 hrs | 1.18 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/koochiching-county