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2017 Traill County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Traill County, ND went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 1306th 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 Traill 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 | June 13, 2017 14:45 | June 14, 2017 02:30 | 11h 45m | 2,410 | 7,416 |
| 2 | September 10, 2017 03:30 | September 10, 2017 09:30 | 6h | 538 | 3,228 |
| 3 | October 17, 2017 19:30 | October 17, 2017 21:15 | 1h 45m | 420 | 636 |
| 4 | October 12, 2017 16:15 | October 12, 2017 17:00 | 45m | 417 | 182 |
| 5 | July 9, 2017 03:00 | July 9, 2017 05:30 | 2h 30m | 395 | 962 |
| 6 | July 5, 2017 05:15 | July 5, 2017 05:30 | 15m | 209 | 52 |
| 7 | July 4, 2017 03:45 | July 4, 2017 05:00 | 1h 15m | 27 | 34 |
| 8 | July 6, 2017 06:15 | July 6, 2017 08:00 | 1h 45m | 13 | 23 |
| 9 | September 20, 2017 03:00 | September 20, 2017 04:00 | 1h | 13 | 13 |
| 10 | August 11, 2017 14:00 | August 11, 2017 15:45 | 1h 45m | 11 | 19 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 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 Traill 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.21 | 2.6 hrs | 1.15 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 43 min | 0.80 | 30 min | 0.71 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hillsboro - (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 ÷ 4,104 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. Traill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traill 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/traill-county