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2018 Dickey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dickey County, ND went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 8,056 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 1481st 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 Dickey 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 | June 6, 2018 04:30 | June 7, 2018 14:30 | 1d 10h | 373 | 698 |
| 2 | October 10, 2018 08:00 | October 10, 2018 15:30 | 7h 30m | 320 | 1,151 |
| 3 | October 10, 2018 16:30 | October 12, 2018 01:30 | 1d 9h | 275 | 2,529 |
| 4 | October 16, 2018 16:45 | October 18, 2018 21:00 | 2d 4h | 174 | 254 |
| 5 | July 11, 2018 15:15 | July 11, 2018 17:00 | 1h 45m | 157 | 119 |
| 6 | July 12, 2018 14:45 | July 12, 2018 15:30 | 45m | 157 | 118 |
| 7 | October 23, 2018 18:15 | October 23, 2018 18:30 | 15m | 139 | 35 |
| 8 | July 23, 2018 15:30 | July 23, 2018 17:45 | 2h 15m | 129 | 290 |
| 9 | July 24, 2018 15:15 | July 24, 2018 16:45 | 1h 30m | 106 | 80 |
| 10 | June 12, 2018 16:00 | June 12, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 99 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 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 Dickey 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.45 | 70 min | 1.25 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 45 min | 0.72 | 34 min | 0.62 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.53 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,595 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. Dickey County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickey 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/dickey-county