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2017 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 1907th 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 Grand Forks 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 | June 13, 2017 15:00 | June 15, 2017 15:15 | 2d | 6,173 | 26K |
| 2 | August 20, 2017 13:15 | August 20, 2017 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,639 | 1,641 |
| 3 | October 3, 2017 18:15 | October 3, 2017 19:45 | 1h 30m | 1,042 | 1,562 |
| 4 | June 29, 2017 19:00 | June 29, 2017 21:30 | 2h 30m | 785 | 523 |
| 5 | July 9, 2017 03:00 | July 9, 2017 05:30 | 2h 30m | 576 | 1,385 |
| 6 | September 16, 2017 19:45 | September 17, 2017 01:00 | 5h 15m | 548 | 2,877 |
| 7 | September 20, 2017 19:30 | September 21, 2017 01:45 | 6h 15m | 548 | 1,360 |
| 8 | June 28, 2017 13:15 | June 28, 2017 16:30 | 3h 15m | 544 | 1,490 |
| 9 | July 22, 2017 14:30 | July 22, 2017 23:15 | 8h 45m | 543 | 3,750 |
| 10 | December 25, 2017 13:15 | December 25, 2017 20:15 | 7h | 244 | 871 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 22 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.21 | 2.6 hrs | 1.15 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county