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2017 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 655 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2325th 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 Kidder County, 2017
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 9, 2017 06:45 | December 9, 2017 07:15 | 30m | 401 | 201 |
| 2 | June 2, 2017 20:15 | June 2, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 3 | February 22, 2017 20:00 | February 22, 2017 20:30 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | August 9, 2017 20:45 | August 9, 2017 21:15 | 30m | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | August 17, 2017 11:15 | August 17, 2017 11:30 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | September 7, 2017 13:45 | September 16, 2017 21:45 | 9d 8h | 2 | 447 |
| 7 | October 10, 2017 19:30 | October 10, 2017 19:45 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | October 16, 2017 16:30 | October 16, 2017 17:00 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 1 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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county