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2018 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 77 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 2697th 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 Kidder County, 2018
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 27, 2018 15:15 | April 27, 2018 16:00 | 45m | 60 | 45 |
| 2 | September 12, 2018 15:30 | September 12, 2018 16:30 | 1h | 12 | 12 |
| 3 | June 28, 2018 14:00 | June 28, 2018 14:45 | 45m | 8 | 6 |
| 4 | September 4, 2018 08:30 | September 4, 2018 08:45 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | July 1, 2018 10:30 | July 1, 2018 10:45 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | August 6, 2018 08:00 | August 6, 2018 13:30 | 5h 30m | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | September 15, 2018 14:30 | September 15, 2018 14:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | October 19, 2018 13:00 | October 19, 2018 13:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | December 2, 2018 00:00 | December 2, 2018 05:15 | 5h 15m | 1 | 5 |
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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county