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2017 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 8,279 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2336th 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 Morton 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 2, 2017 22:15 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 9d 7h | 836 | 989 |
| 2 | October 21, 2017 19:15 | October 21, 2017 20:15 | 1h | 503 | 377 |
| 3 | October 13, 2017 05:00 | October 13, 2017 10:45 | 5h 45m | 478 | 2,681 |
| 4 | November 18, 2017 11:45 | November 18, 2017 12:00 | 15m | 458 | 115 |
| 5 | June 17, 2017 13:15 | June 17, 2017 14:30 | 1h 15m | 78 | 88 |
| 6 | July 9, 2017 12:45 | July 9, 2017 16:00 | 3h 15m | 76 | 222 |
| 7 | July 27, 2017 18:15 | July 27, 2017 19:45 | 1h 30m | 74 | 111 |
| 8 | April 27, 2017 21:15 | May 4, 2017 18:30 | 6d 21h | 69 | 412 |
| 9 | July 19, 2017 16:15 | July 20, 2017 01:15 | 9h | 68 | 85 |
| 10 | July 22, 2017 01:15 | July 22, 2017 11:15 | 10h | 53 | 55 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county