County annual report · FIPS 38003
2017 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,397 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2329th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 8, 2017 23:45 | May 9, 2017 00:15 | 30m | 970 | 243 |
| 2 | August 21, 2017 20:15 | August 21, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 855 | 214 |
| 3 | August 25, 2017 16:30 | August 25, 2017 18:30 | 2h | 375 | 97 |
| 4 | September 17, 2017 14:30 | September 17, 2017 15:15 | 45m | 374 | 94 |
| 5 | June 1, 2017 14:45 | June 1, 2017 20:00 | 5h 15m | 343 | 781 |
| 6 | January 6, 2017 16:30 | January 6, 2017 17:45 | 1h 15m | 293 | 74 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 22:00 | May 2, 2017 02:45 | 4h 45m | 140 | 271 |
| 8 | September 22, 2017 14:30 | September 22, 2017 14:45 | 15m | 117 | 29 |
| 9 | May 12, 2017 14:15 | May 12, 2017 14:30 | 15m | 102 | 26 |
| 10 | May 31, 2017 15:00 | May 31, 2017 16:00 | 1h | 96 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 2.12 | 2.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.21 | 2.6 hrs | 1.15 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 43 min | 0.80 | 30 min | 0.71 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/north-dakota/barnes-county