County annual report · FIPS 27095
2024 Mille Lacs County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mille Lacs County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2684th 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 Mille Lacs 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 31, 2024 15:15 | November 1, 2024 21:30 | 1d 6h | 1,280 | 13K |
| 2 | June 21, 2024 00:45 | June 21, 2024 03:15 | 2h 30m | 1,062 | 2,433 |
| 3 | July 8, 2024 15:00 | July 8, 2024 17:00 | 2h | 139 | 166 |
| 4 | July 31, 2024 21:15 | August 1, 2024 03:45 | 6h 30m | 103 | 187 |
| 5 | July 11, 2024 18:15 | July 11, 2024 19:00 | 45m | 99 | 62 |
| 6 | May 24, 2024 13:30 | May 24, 2024 19:30 | 6h | 96 | 82 |
| 7 | August 3, 2024 23:30 | August 4, 2024 01:30 | 2h | 94 | 188 |
| 8 | October 17, 2024 14:30 | October 17, 2024 15:30 | 1h | 92 | 92 |
| 9 | July 30, 2024 11:30 | July 30, 2024 13:45 | 2h 15m | 79 | 178 |
| 10 | April 29, 2024 04:15 | April 29, 2024 09:15 | 5h | 75 | 187 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 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 Mille Lacs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
| Connexus Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.85 | 30 min | 0.33 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 10.41 | 2.6 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/mille-lacs-county