Power outages in St. Louis County, MN
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving St. Louis County yet. ALLETE, Inc., Lake Country Power and City of Biwabik - (MN) serve this county.
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No live outage data for St. Louis County yet.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
Outage history in St. Louis County
2014–2025 recordSt. Louis County averaged 26.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Minnesota counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 26. Half were over within 1 hour; the longest lasted 15 hours, starting July 27, 2025.
The largest on record began July 21, 2016, with 34,294 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in June.
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.i
Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| July 21, 2016 | 34,294 | 6.3 days | 2,001,318 |
| April 13, 2022 | 11,356 | 6 hours | 42,030 |
| July 27, 2021 | 10,565 | 8.5 hours | 36,642 |
| March 22, 2016 | 9,702 | 45 minutes | 5,468 |
| June 21, 2022 | 9,065 | 1.8 days | 182,124 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Cities in St. Louis County
Utilities
- ALLETE, Inc. no live feed
- Lake Country Power no live feed
- City of Biwabik - (MN) no live feed
- City of Buhl - (MN) no live feed
- Cooperative Light & Power no live feed
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