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2017 Stark County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Stark County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2202nd 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 Stark 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 12, 2017 08:00 | August 13, 2017 17:15 | 1d 9h | 778 | 1,242 |
| 2 | October 14, 2017 21:45 | October 15, 2017 02:45 | 5h | 601 | 1,260 |
| 3 | May 16, 2017 02:00 | May 16, 2017 03:15 | 1h 15m | 558 | 144 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 09:00 | June 17, 2017 21:15 | 12h 15m | 537 | 976 |
| 5 | August 15, 2017 19:00 | August 25, 2017 20:45 | 10d 1h | 478 | 3,176 |
| 6 | October 19, 2017 06:00 | October 19, 2017 11:15 | 5h 15m | 337 | 1,698 |
| 7 | March 6, 2017 22:30 | March 8, 2017 20:30 | 1d 22h | 230 | 519 |
| 8 | August 31, 2017 02:30 | August 31, 2017 13:15 | 10h 45m | 112 | 252 |
| 9 | October 4, 2017 19:00 | October 4, 2017 21:45 | 2h 45m | 99 | 64 |
| 10 | July 24, 2017 17:00 | July 24, 2017 20:45 | 3h 45m | 98 | 108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Stark 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,614 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. Stark County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stark 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/stark-county