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2024 St. Louis County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in St. Louis County, MN went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 506K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1848th 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 St. Louis 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 | April 8, 2024 21:15 | April 9, 2024 12:00 | 14h 45m | 7,794 | 9,859 |
| 2 | October 7, 2024 13:00 | October 9, 2024 21:15 | 2d 8h | 4,500 | 17K |
| 3 | November 11, 2024 05:00 | November 12, 2024 02:45 | 21h 45m | 3,837 | 29K |
| 4 | June 18, 2024 07:00 | June 21, 2024 04:00 | 2d 21h | 3,199 | 21K |
| 5 | June 11, 2024 13:00 | June 11, 2024 21:15 | 8h 15m | 3,136 | 4,087 |
| 6 | July 30, 2024 12:15 | July 31, 2024 06:45 | 18h 30m | 3,036 | 5,421 |
| 7 | May 3, 2024 13:30 | May 4, 2024 04:00 | 14h 30m | 2,632 | 3,258 |
| 8 | May 15, 2024 13:15 | May 16, 2024 15:45 | 1d 2h | 2,567 | 4,055 |
| 9 | May 24, 2024 10:15 | May 28, 2024 12:15 | 4d 2h | 2,439 | 23K |
| 10 | June 12, 2024 22:00 | June 14, 2024 02:15 | 1d 4h | 2,285 | 6,676 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 149 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 St. Louis 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 |
| North Star Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.9 hrs | 0.84 |
| Cooperative L&P Assn Lake County | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.99 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| City of Biwabik - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buhl - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ely - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gilbert | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Iron - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Virginia - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hibbing Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Proctor 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 ÷ 127,172 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. St. Louis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Louis 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/st-louis-county