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2025 Aitkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Aitkin County, MN went without power for an average of 14.1 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 543rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aitkin County, 2025
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 23, 2025 08:00 | June 26, 2025 19:30 | 3d 11h | 3,255 | 52K |
| 2 | July 22, 2025 19:45 | July 23, 2025 21:15 | 1d 1h | 2,414 | 17K |
| 3 | August 8, 2025 13:45 | August 11, 2025 00:00 | 2d 10h | 1,910 | 9,609 |
| 4 | July 4, 2025 20:45 | July 5, 2025 20:45 | 1d | 1,832 | 9,746 |
| 5 | June 17, 2025 13:15 | June 17, 2025 18:15 | 5h | 1,680 | 553 |
| 6 | July 24, 2025 00:45 | July 24, 2025 02:30 | 1h 45m | 1,245 | 2,179 |
| 7 | July 22, 2025 14:00 | July 22, 2025 19:00 | 5h | 1,239 | 3,464 |
| 8 | November 28, 2025 02:45 | November 28, 2025 16:45 | 14h | 990 | 9,493 |
| 9 | June 9, 2025 12:15 | June 9, 2025 20:15 | 8h | 728 | 335 |
| 10 | April 28, 2025 23:30 | April 30, 2025 12:15 | 1d 12h | 714 | 4,045 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 57 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 Aitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| 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 |
| Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 10.41 | 2.6 hrs | 1.22 |
| Aitkin 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,677 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. Aitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aitkin County, MN annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/minnesota/aitkin-county