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2017 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 238 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2542nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sargent 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 | May 26, 2017 06:45 | May 26, 2017 07:45 | 1h | 80 | 80 |
| 2 | July 24, 2017 22:15 | July 24, 2017 23:15 | 1h | 79 | 79 |
| 3 | March 29, 2017 15:15 | March 29, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 23 | 46 |
| 4 | October 25, 2017 17:45 | October 25, 2017 20:15 | 2h 30m | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | March 27, 2017 16:45 | March 27, 2017 17:30 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | April 12, 2017 22:00 | April 12, 2017 23:00 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | February 17, 2017 22:30 | February 17, 2017 23:00 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | April 28, 2017 16:30 | April 28, 2017 18:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 18:45 | May 1, 2017 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | May 8, 2017 09:45 | May 8, 2017 10:45 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 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 Sargent 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 Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.38 | 2.4 hrs | 1.38 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 43 min | 0.80 | 30 min | 0.71 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.6 hrs | 1.66 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county