Power Out Map
– 0% of Pine out 0 customers out in Minnesota

Power outage history

Pine County Minnesota

7.2hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

6th most of 54 in Minnesota close to the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 16, 2022 39% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.2h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.5days Dec 14, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 62% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 30 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 16,386 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Pine's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 30 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pine, hours without power per customer

PineUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 20 3.0 ’15 4.9 ’16 2.8 ’17 1.8 ’18 0.7 ’19 6.3 ’20 5.4 ’21 30 ’22 3.4 ’23 7.3 ’24 3.1 ’25 US 6.6 MN 2.9

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Dec 14, 2022 Winter storm 6,335 39% 4.5 d 38 h 301k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 9,417 57% 46 h 21 h 100k
Aug 14, 2020 Thunderstorms 4,558 28% 26 h 21 h 39k
Oct 31, 2024 No storm report 2,525 15% 25 h 17 h 32k
Jul 21, 2016 Heat 1,747 11% 36 h 33 h 31k
Jun 28, 2021 No storm report 3,684 22% 14 h 14 h 27k
May 6, 2015 No storm report 1,154 7% 25 h 25 h 27k
Mar 29, 2020 No storm report 3,393 21% 17 h 7.5 h 15k
Mar 12, 2023 Winter storm 2,139 13% 29 h 31 h 15k
Jun 19, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,061 13% 17 h 11 h 15k
Mar 7, 2017 No storm report 1,901 12% 17 h 9.5 h 13k
Mar 1, 2024 No storm report 277 2% 47 h – 13k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +22h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pine from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 41%
  • No storm on record 38%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pine

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Minnesota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Investor Owned 226 115 1.38 17.1 1.2M
ALLETE, Inc. Investor Owned 143 102 1.23 15.9 127k
East Central Energy Cooperative 97 82 1.03 17.6 56k
Lake Country Power Cooperative 415 141 2.32 18.3 47k
Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co Investor Owned – – – 14.7 51

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Minnesota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Minnesota counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 16,386 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →