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2017 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2051st 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 McKenzie 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 | August 27, 2017 15:15 | August 29, 2017 01:15 | 1d 10h | 185 | 471 |
| 2 | April 21, 2017 05:00 | April 21, 2017 12:00 | 7h | 101 | 431 |
| 3 | July 27, 2017 14:30 | July 29, 2017 13:15 | 1d 22h | 70 | 226 |
| 4 | July 7, 2017 12:45 | July 7, 2017 15:45 | 3h | 50 | 66 |
| 5 | March 7, 2017 18:00 | March 7, 2017 21:00 | 3h | 43 | 52 |
| 6 | September 12, 2017 15:15 | September 24, 2017 04:00 | 11d 12h | 40 | 4,327 |
| 7 | March 2, 2017 17:30 | March 3, 2017 14:15 | 20h 45m | 39 | 83 |
| 8 | May 3, 2017 19:00 | May 9, 2017 02:15 | 5d 7h | 38 | 1,130 |
| 9 | September 6, 2017 22:45 | September 7, 2017 13:15 | 14h 30m | 35 | 94 |
| 10 | May 9, 2017 04:00 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 8d 13h | 21 | 1,255 |
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 McKenzie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.52 | 2.5 hrs | 1.19 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county