County annual report · FIPS 38003
2018 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 37 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 2758th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2018
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 29, 2018 17:30 | May 29, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | August 3, 2018 15:45 | August 3, 2018 16:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | October 10, 2018 20:45 | October 11, 2018 21:15 | 1d | 1 | 25 |
| 4 | October 25, 2018 15:30 | October 25, 2018 17:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.30 | 1.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 45 min | 0.72 | 34 min | 0.62 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 51% of North Dakota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/north-dakota/barnes-county