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2016 Steele County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Steele County, ND went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 3 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 2342nd 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 Steele County, 2016
The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 15, 2016 22:30 | January 15, 2016 23:15 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | February 9, 2016 21:15 | February 9, 2016 21:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | October 20, 2016 14:30 | October 20, 2016 15:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | December 16, 2016 19:00 | December 16, 2016 19:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | December 16, 2016 20:00 | December 16, 2016 20:15 | 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 Steele 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hope - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sharon- (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 ÷ 557 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county