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2018 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 1552nd 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 Richland 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 | October 5, 2018 20:00 | October 6, 2018 00:30 | 4h 30m | 272 | 349 |
| 2 | June 16, 2018 13:00 | June 18, 2018 13:30 | 2d | 188 | 3,117 |
| 3 | October 8, 2018 14:15 | October 8, 2018 14:45 | 30m | 177 | 89 |
| 4 | September 5, 2018 12:30 | September 5, 2018 12:45 | 15m | 176 | 44 |
| 5 | June 14, 2018 20:45 | June 14, 2018 21:15 | 30m | 170 | 69 |
| 6 | August 24, 2018 06:15 | August 24, 2018 06:45 | 30m | 164 | 82 |
| 7 | August 24, 2018 17:15 | August 24, 2018 19:00 | 1h 45m | 163 | 250 |
| 8 | August 25, 2018 19:30 | August 27, 2018 14:00 | 1d 18h | 130 | 3,065 |
| 9 | November 6, 2018 17:15 | November 6, 2018 19:00 | 1h 45m | 87 | 130 |
| 10 | July 19, 2018 22:15 | July 20, 2018 00:15 | 2h | 66 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 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 Richland 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county