County annual report · FIPS 38003
2015 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 3,804 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 10 North Dakota counties and 2066th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 3, 2015 15:45 | December 3, 2015 16:00 | 15m | 383 | 96 |
| 2 | October 7, 2015 19:30 | October 7, 2015 19:45 | 15m | 315 | 79 |
| 3 | June 3, 2015 15:15 | June 3, 2015 16:15 | 1h | 186 | 186 |
| 4 | August 16, 2015 01:15 | August 16, 2015 07:30 | 6h 15m | 160 | 298 |
| 5 | July 29, 2015 02:00 | July 29, 2015 03:15 | 1h 15m | 125 | 101 |
| 6 | June 14, 2015 13:30 | June 14, 2015 17:00 | 3h 30m | 113 | 240 |
| 7 | October 29, 2015 18:15 | October 29, 2015 20:30 | 2h 15m | 92 | 93 |
| 8 | August 14, 2015 15:15 | August 14, 2015 16:00 | 45m | 91 | 68 |
| 9 | September 3, 2015 19:30 | September 3, 2015 22:15 | 2h 45m | 73 | 85 |
| 10 | April 19, 2015 01:00 | April 19, 2015 01:15 | 15m | 72 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 3.23 | 1.8 hrs | 3.23 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 0.59 | 2.2 hrs | 0.59 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2015 | 5.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.5 hrs | 2.21 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2015 | 47 min | 1.18 | 38 min | 1.05 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 North Dakota's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-dakota/barnes-county