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2018 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 4,314 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 1327th 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 Burke County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 6, 2018 03:30 | March 6, 2018 06:45 | 3h 15m | 524 | 1,490 |
| 2 | August 29, 2018 08:45 | August 29, 2018 11:30 | 2h 45m | 173 | 468 |
| 3 | October 2, 2018 01:30 | October 2, 2018 01:45 | 15m | 167 | 42 |
| 4 | June 1, 2018 20:30 | June 2, 2018 09:15 | 12h 45m | 102 | 392 |
| 5 | August 3, 2018 03:30 | August 3, 2018 08:45 | 5h 15m | 81 | 102 |
| 6 | July 11, 2018 03:15 | July 11, 2018 17:15 | 14h | 60 | 222 |
| 7 | July 21, 2018 06:30 | July 21, 2018 17:15 | 10h 45m | 45 | 195 |
| 8 | September 19, 2018 13:15 | September 19, 2018 21:00 | 7h 45m | 45 | 310 |
| 9 | January 1, 2018 14:15 | January 1, 2018 16:00 | 1h 45m | 44 | 64 |
| 10 | June 5, 2018 06:00 | June 6, 2018 02:15 | 20h 15m | 44 | 237 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 51% of North Dakota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/north-dakota/burke-county