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2016 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 13 North Dakota counties and 2104th 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 Ward 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 | January 8, 2016 07:45 | January 8, 2016 11:30 | 3h 45m | 2,727 | 3,415 |
| 2 | July 28, 2016 16:30 | July 28, 2016 20:00 | 3h 30m | 2,482 | 1,090 |
| 3 | July 27, 2016 21:30 | July 27, 2016 23:45 | 2h 15m | 1,628 | 2,833 |
| 4 | March 15, 2016 05:15 | March 15, 2016 07:00 | 1h 45m | 1,213 | 2,123 |
| 5 | March 15, 2016 12:30 | March 15, 2016 14:15 | 1h 45m | 446 | 113 |
| 6 | July 12, 2016 12:45 | July 12, 2016 21:30 | 8h 45m | 331 | 1,529 |
| 7 | July 21, 2016 22:15 | July 22, 2016 01:00 | 2h 45m | 234 | 352 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 22:00 | July 8, 2016 01:00 | 3h | 232 | 148 |
| 9 | June 19, 2016 18:00 | June 20, 2016 02:30 | 8h 30m | 216 | 546 |
| 10 | March 19, 2016 17:45 | March 19, 2016 18:45 | 1h | 213 | 213 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Ward 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 1.12 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county