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2018 Ransom County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ransom County, ND went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 5,080 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 1937th 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 Ransom 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 16, 2018 13:45 | June 18, 2018 13:30 | 1d 23h | 229 | 1,570 |
| 2 | October 10, 2018 16:30 | October 11, 2018 18:00 | 1d 1h | 65 | 673 |
| 3 | June 9, 2018 14:15 | June 11, 2018 14:30 | 2d | 50 | 161 |
| 4 | June 14, 2018 21:00 | June 14, 2018 21:15 | 15m | 46 | 12 |
| 5 | August 24, 2018 06:15 | August 24, 2018 06:45 | 30m | 46 | 23 |
| 6 | August 24, 2018 17:15 | August 24, 2018 19:00 | 1h 45m | 46 | 70 |
| 7 | August 26, 2018 15:15 | August 27, 2018 13:45 | 22h 30m | 46 | 1,026 |
| 8 | November 6, 2018 01:30 | November 6, 2018 03:15 | 1h 45m | 40 | 50 |
| 9 | October 29, 2018 15:15 | October 29, 2018 16:00 | 45m | 34 | 26 |
| 10 | September 2, 2018 09:00 | September 4, 2018 17:00 | 2d 8h | 20 | 1,108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 1 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 Ransom 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,772 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. Ransom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ransom 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/ransom-county