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2017 Bowman County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bowman County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 1,205 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2317th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bowman 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 | April 10, 2017 04:15 | April 10, 2017 05:15 | 1h | 166 | 166 |
| 2 | February 22, 2017 00:15 | February 22, 2017 04:15 | 4h | 140 | 559 |
| 3 | July 17, 2017 04:00 | July 17, 2017 05:00 | 1h | 138 | 138 |
| 4 | August 28, 2017 23:00 | August 29, 2017 01:15 | 2h 15m | 47 | 94 |
| 5 | April 10, 2017 02:15 | April 10, 2017 03:30 | 1h 15m | 45 | 56 |
| 6 | March 29, 2017 03:45 | March 29, 2017 04:00 | 15m | 19 | 5 |
| 7 | July 11, 2017 02:00 | July 11, 2017 02:15 | 15m | 19 | 5 |
| 8 | February 28, 2017 14:00 | February 28, 2017 17:00 | 3h | 12 | 32 |
| 9 | October 3, 2017 18:45 | October 3, 2017 20:15 | 1h 30m | 9 | 14 |
| 10 | September 15, 2017 09:30 | September 15, 2017 16:00 | 6h 30m | 6 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Bowman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 42 min | 0.75 | 42 min | 0.75 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Slope 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,623 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. Bowman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowman 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/bowman-county