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2016 Ransom County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ransom County, ND went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 6,938 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 1147th 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 Ransom 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 25, 2016 15:45 | September 25, 2016 16:00 | 15m | 801 | 200 |
| 2 | July 3, 2016 02:15 | July 3, 2016 02:30 | 15m | 797 | 199 |
| 3 | August 10, 2016 11:00 | August 10, 2016 13:30 | 2h 30m | 796 | 374 |
| 4 | December 26, 2016 03:45 | December 27, 2016 02:15 | 22h 30m | 481 | 4,122 |
| 5 | July 10, 2016 05:15 | July 10, 2016 08:15 | 3h | 394 | 971 |
| 6 | September 23, 2016 19:00 | September 23, 2016 20:30 | 1h 30m | 382 | 479 |
| 7 | April 13, 2016 22:00 | April 13, 2016 22:45 | 45m | 68 | 51 |
| 8 | August 10, 2016 08:00 | August 10, 2016 10:00 | 2h | 63 | 64 |
| 9 | September 25, 2016 17:30 | September 25, 2016 19:15 | 1h 45m | 53 | 42 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 17:30 | July 19, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 32 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 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 Ransom 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 | 36 min | 0.56 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 16.5 hrs | 2.75 | 2.7 hrs | 1.57 |
| 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 ÷ 2,772 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. Ransom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ransom 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/ransom-county