What's in Hibbing's water?
Hibbing has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 16,028 people through 5,684 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Hibbing has 11 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,146th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.
How Hibbing compares within MN
Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Hibbing's 1 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Hibbing is from 2025-01-11 (health-based: 2002-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Hibbing's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Hibbing reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Hibbing's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,146th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.