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2016 Traill County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Traill County, ND went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 471 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 2214th 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 Traill 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 | August 7, 2016 13:45 | August 7, 2016 16:45 | 3h | 40 | 71 |
| 2 | June 16, 2016 15:30 | June 16, 2016 23:00 | 7h 30m | 30 | 218 |
| 3 | August 27, 2016 21:45 | August 27, 2016 22:45 | 1h | 26 | 22 |
| 4 | August 21, 2016 17:15 | August 21, 2016 18:30 | 1h 15m | 20 | 15 |
| 5 | January 12, 2016 22:15 | January 12, 2016 23:00 | 45m | 12 | 6 |
| 6 | April 15, 2016 16:45 | April 15, 2016 17:30 | 45m | 12 | 8 |
| 7 | July 2, 2016 11:30 | July 2, 2016 14:00 | 2h 30m | 12 | 26 |
| 8 | September 23, 2016 23:45 | September 24, 2016 01:15 | 1h 30m | 12 | 18 |
| 9 | November 5, 2016 15:15 | November 5, 2016 16:30 | 1h 15m | 12 | 15 |
| 10 | March 31, 2016 14:00 | March 31, 2016 14:45 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
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 Traill 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 | 36 min | 0.56 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hillsboro - (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 ÷ 4,104 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. Traill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traill 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/traill-county