County annual report · FIPS 38023
2018 Divide County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Divide County, ND went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 3,467 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 1281st 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 Divide 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 | August 9, 2018 16:00 | August 9, 2018 21:15 | 5h 15m | 323 | 913 |
| 2 | August 2, 2018 13:15 | August 2, 2018 17:15 | 4h | 284 | 1,125 |
| 3 | August 16, 2018 19:15 | August 17, 2018 01:15 | 6h | 218 | 902 |
| 4 | February 10, 2018 17:15 | February 10, 2018 20:00 | 2h 45m | 214 | 318 |
| 5 | October 2, 2018 01:30 | October 2, 2018 01:45 | 15m | 156 | 39 |
| 6 | July 7, 2018 19:45 | July 7, 2018 21:30 | 1h 45m | 36 | 63 |
| 7 | February 12, 2018 08:00 | February 12, 2018 09:30 | 1h 30m | 33 | 49 |
| 8 | February 2, 2018 02:15 | February 2, 2018 04:45 | 2h 30m | 9 | 19 |
| 9 | April 12, 2018 14:15 | April 12, 2018 15:15 | 1h | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | August 29, 2018 15:30 | August 29, 2018 15:45 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 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 Divide 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheridan 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 ÷ 893 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. Divide County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Divide 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/divide-county