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2017 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 7,378 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 836th 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 Burke 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 | March 7, 2017 15:00 | March 8, 2017 22:15 | 1d 7h | 318 | 3,404 |
| 2 | May 16, 2017 03:30 | May 16, 2017 06:00 | 2h 30m | 187 | 236 |
| 3 | November 9, 2017 13:30 | November 9, 2017 14:00 | 30m | 73 | 20 |
| 4 | August 14, 2017 17:45 | August 28, 2017 01:45 | 13d 8h | 72 | 1,812 |
| 5 | March 7, 2017 11:00 | March 7, 2017 13:15 | 2h 15m | 56 | 126 |
| 6 | December 7, 2017 04:30 | December 7, 2017 05:00 | 30m | 53 | 15 |
| 7 | August 12, 2017 09:30 | August 14, 2017 14:00 | 2d 4h | 52 | 425 |
| 8 | June 23, 2017 00:00 | June 23, 2017 03:15 | 3h 15m | 45 | 65 |
| 9 | July 28, 2017 17:45 | July 29, 2017 09:15 | 15h 30m | 43 | 174 |
| 10 | June 4, 2017 04:15 | June 5, 2017 21:15 | 1d 17h | 33 | 132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/north-dakota/burke-county