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2017 Mercer County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mercer County, ND went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 5,093 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2116th 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 Mercer 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 | September 27, 2017 17:15 | October 7, 2017 15:15 | 9d 22h | 1,789 | 2,943 |
| 2 | June 21, 2017 20:00 | July 1, 2017 17:45 | 9d 21h | 131 | 1,259 |
| 3 | May 25, 2017 15:45 | May 25, 2017 20:30 | 4h 45m | 92 | 173 |
| 4 | August 24, 2017 16:15 | August 24, 2017 16:45 | 30m | 32 | 11 |
| 5 | June 2, 2017 15:00 | June 2, 2017 18:00 | 3h | 10 | 22 |
| 6 | February 15, 2017 06:30 | February 15, 2017 08:45 | 2h 15m | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | June 6, 2017 17:15 | June 6, 2017 20:15 | 3h | 8 | 24 |
| 8 | November 11, 2017 18:00 | November 11, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 8 | 20 |
| 9 | June 1, 2017 15:45 | June 1, 2017 17:15 | 1h 30m | 7 | 9 |
| 10 | July 9, 2017 15:15 | July 9, 2017 18:15 | 3h | 7 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Mercer 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Basin Electric Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stanton - (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 ÷ 6,015 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. Mercer County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county