County annual report · FIPS 27113
2024 Pennington County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pennington County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 23 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2978th 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 Pennington County, 2024
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 7, 2024 15:30 | January 7, 2024 16:45 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | March 13, 2024 16:00 | March 13, 2024 19:30 | 3h 30m | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | April 25, 2024 22:00 | April 25, 2024 23:45 | 1h 45m | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | July 7, 2024 06:45 | July 7, 2024 07:00 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 0 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 Pennington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| City of Thief River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,940 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. Pennington County has data for 2023–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pennington 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/pennington-county