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2015 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 10 North Dakota counties and 2035th 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 Ward 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 | November 2, 2015 21:30 | November 2, 2015 23:30 | 2h | 2,990 | 3,016 |
| 2 | July 28, 2015 19:15 | July 30, 2015 01:15 | 1d 6h | 1,220 | 16K |
| 3 | August 20, 2015 20:00 | August 20, 2015 22:45 | 2h 45m | 967 | 726 |
| 4 | November 18, 2015 18:15 | November 19, 2015 00:45 | 6h 30m | 374 | 365 |
| 5 | October 20, 2015 13:00 | October 20, 2015 15:00 | 2h | 273 | 310 |
| 6 | November 19, 2015 02:30 | November 19, 2015 07:15 | 4h 45m | 196 | 474 |
| 7 | July 24, 2015 02:00 | July 24, 2015 02:45 | 45m | 184 | 138 |
| 8 | June 10, 2015 11:30 | June 10, 2015 14:45 | 3h 15m | 174 | 392 |
| 9 | June 23, 2015 03:45 | June 23, 2015 10:45 | 7h | 166 | 505 |
| 10 | October 12, 2015 09:00 | October 12, 2015 14:00 | 5h | 159 | 388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ward 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.46 | 59 min | 1.09 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county