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2017 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2285th 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 Ward 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 | July 10, 2017 18:00 | July 10, 2017 21:00 | 3h | 12,637 | 13K |
| 2 | March 30, 2017 02:30 | March 30, 2017 04:15 | 1h 45m | 2,125 | 1,595 |
| 3 | September 25, 2017 15:45 | September 25, 2017 21:30 | 5h 45m | 1,430 | 2,741 |
| 4 | November 20, 2017 14:45 | November 20, 2017 19:00 | 4h 15m | 425 | 749 |
| 5 | May 11, 2017 03:30 | May 11, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 279 | 489 |
| 6 | July 9, 2017 17:30 | July 9, 2017 21:30 | 4h | 235 | 529 |
| 7 | July 24, 2017 23:15 | July 25, 2017 00:15 | 1h | 191 | 191 |
| 8 | June 9, 2017 15:15 | June 9, 2017 19:45 | 4h 30m | 190 | 618 |
| 9 | July 3, 2017 12:45 | July 3, 2017 15:00 | 2h 15m | 190 | 380 |
| 10 | August 17, 2017 05:00 | August 17, 2017 10:15 | 5h 15m | 186 | 545 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Ward 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 42 min | 0.75 | 42 min | 0.75 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county