County annual report · FIPS 38039
2016 Griggs County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Griggs County, ND went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 1 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 2371st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Griggs County, 2016
The 3 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 02:45 | May 23, 2016 03:00 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | August 2, 2016 22:30 | August 2, 2016 22:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | August 3, 2016 20:15 | August 3, 2016 20:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 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 Griggs 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 786 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. Griggs County has data for 2016–2017, 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Griggs 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/griggs-county