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2017 Mountrail County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mountrail County, ND went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 5,856 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 1951st 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 Mountrail 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 22, 2017 12:30 | April 1, 2017 17:00 | 10d 4h | 476 | 3,933 |
| 2 | March 7, 2017 21:45 | March 11, 2017 02:15 | 3d 4h | 190 | 320 |
| 3 | March 1, 2017 15:45 | March 4, 2017 18:15 | 3d 2h | 101 | 292 |
| 4 | April 3, 2017 15:45 | April 10, 2017 21:15 | 7d 5h | 45 | 777 |
| 5 | August 14, 2017 22:15 | August 15, 2017 13:15 | 15h | 41 | 193 |
| 6 | July 27, 2017 15:00 | July 28, 2017 09:15 | 18h 15m | 40 | 78 |
| 7 | April 3, 2017 11:00 | April 3, 2017 12:45 | 1h 45m | 37 | 65 |
| 8 | May 4, 2017 16:00 | May 4, 2017 19:00 | 3h | 18 | 43 |
| 9 | September 23, 2017 18:45 | September 23, 2017 20:00 | 1h 15m | 16 | 13 |
| 10 | October 13, 2017 19:30 | October 13, 2017 20:45 | 1h 15m | 13 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Mountrail 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 42 min | 0.75 | 42 min | 0.75 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 4,771 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. Mountrail County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mountrail 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/mountrail-county