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2024 Pine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pine County, MN went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1199th 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 Pine 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 | May 11, 2024 00:45 | May 11, 2024 10:15 | 9h 30m | 3,694 | 4,233 |
| 2 | May 18, 2024 12:15 | May 18, 2024 14:45 | 2h 30m | 3,672 | 7,050 |
| 3 | February 21, 2024 09:00 | February 21, 2024 14:30 | 5h 30m | 3,142 | 7,441 |
| 4 | September 10, 2024 13:30 | September 10, 2024 21:15 | 7h 45m | 2,795 | 4,903 |
| 5 | October 31, 2024 14:00 | November 2, 2024 02:45 | 1d 12h | 2,525 | 32K |
| 6 | February 23, 2024 08:30 | February 23, 2024 13:30 | 5h | 2,221 | 3,842 |
| 7 | July 31, 2024 12:30 | August 2, 2024 00:15 | 1d 11h | 1,481 | 7,692 |
| 8 | July 8, 2024 21:15 | July 9, 2024 07:00 | 9h 45m | 782 | 3,555 |
| 9 | August 28, 2024 14:15 | August 28, 2024 20:00 | 5h 45m | 761 | 3,846 |
| 10 | July 25, 2024 13:45 | July 25, 2024 18:30 | 4h 45m | 760 | 3,598 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 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 Pine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/pine-county