County annual report · FIPS 38003
2016 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 1099th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 23, 2016 19:00 | September 23, 2016 21:15 | 2h 15m | 880 | 1,082 |
| 2 | August 10, 2016 11:00 | August 10, 2016 11:15 | 15m | 846 | 212 |
| 3 | December 25, 2016 22:15 | December 27, 2016 22:00 | 1d 23h | 821 | 14K |
| 4 | June 18, 2016 23:45 | June 19, 2016 00:00 | 15m | 589 | 147 |
| 5 | July 11, 2016 05:15 | July 11, 2016 13:45 | 8h 30m | 589 | 835 |
| 6 | September 24, 2016 01:45 | September 24, 2016 02:15 | 30m | 327 | 92 |
| 7 | July 10, 2016 05:15 | July 10, 2016 07:30 | 2h 15m | 326 | 734 |
| 8 | May 23, 2016 02:45 | May 23, 2016 06:45 | 4h | 129 | 199 |
| 9 | May 20, 2016 23:45 | May 21, 2016 02:30 | 2h 45m | 128 | 237 |
| 10 | July 11, 2016 15:45 | July 11, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 112 | 115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 3.27 | 1.8 hrs | 2.87 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.47 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | 2.11 | 5.4 hrs | 2.04 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 | 36 min | 0.56 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-dakota/barnes-county