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2016 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 1587th 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 Grand Forks 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 | May 23, 2016 04:00 | May 23, 2016 14:00 | 10h | 5,090 | 26K |
| 2 | April 16, 2016 01:45 | April 16, 2016 02:45 | 1h | 3,919 | 1,960 |
| 3 | June 14, 2016 18:45 | June 14, 2016 23:30 | 4h 45m | 1,928 | 3,055 |
| 4 | July 20, 2016 03:45 | July 20, 2016 08:15 | 4h 30m | 1,772 | 2,666 |
| 5 | February 21, 2016 12:30 | February 21, 2016 16:15 | 3h 45m | 1,468 | 5,505 |
| 6 | January 8, 2016 20:45 | January 8, 2016 23:00 | 2h 15m | 1,046 | 1,203 |
| 7 | April 11, 2016 02:30 | April 11, 2016 18:00 | 15h 30m | 474 | 2,260 |
| 8 | June 9, 2016 19:15 | June 9, 2016 21:45 | 2h 30m | 336 | 692 |
| 9 | May 26, 2016 23:00 | May 27, 2016 00:30 | 1h 30m | 257 | 349 |
| 10 | May 27, 2016 02:00 | May 27, 2016 02:30 | 30m | 257 | 129 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.47 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county