Power Outages in Ward County, ND
No live outage feed is available for Ward County, ND yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.5 hours.
Ward County, ND is served by local tracked utilities.
Ward County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Ward County right now.
Ward County has been under 19 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Dense Fog Advisory on July 17, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×12
- Dense Fog Advisory ×6
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Ward County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Minotno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Ward County went about 0.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 12,637 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 7,477 customers out) · decade average 0.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | 2,990 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 160 | 2,727 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 192 | 12,637 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 206 | 2,229 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 237 | 3,983 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 229 | 7,227 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 242 | 7,447 | 0.7 |
| 2022 | 271 | 7,477 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 217 | 3,422 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 240 | 2,127 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 303 | 2,806 | 0.5 |
Very High winter weather exposure · 0.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Ward County: FAQ
- How often does Ward County, ND lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Ward County, ND logged 303 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Ward County, ND?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 12,637 customers without power, beginning July 10, 2017 and lasting about 3h.
- Is there a power outage in Ward County, ND right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Ward County, ND. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Minot. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Ward County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Ward County.
58701, 58703, 58704, 58705, 58707, 58718, 58722, 58733, 58734, 58735, 58746, 58756, 58781, 58785
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/38101 and /api/v1/counties/38101/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of North Dakota customers).