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2018 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 2591st 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 Ward 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 12, 2018 21:30 | August 13, 2018 05:30 | 8h | 2,229 | 4,016 |
| 2 | July 2, 2018 21:45 | July 2, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 651 | 163 |
| 3 | June 1, 2018 19:30 | June 1, 2018 22:30 | 3h | 643 | 321 |
| 4 | June 5, 2018 01:45 | June 5, 2018 03:00 | 1h 15m | 643 | 798 |
| 5 | July 13, 2018 18:30 | July 13, 2018 21:30 | 3h | 610 | 1,668 |
| 6 | July 14, 2018 21:30 | July 14, 2018 23:45 | 2h 15m | 269 | 514 |
| 7 | August 10, 2018 23:45 | August 11, 2018 01:15 | 1h 30m | 225 | 316 |
| 8 | July 20, 2018 12:00 | July 20, 2018 14:30 | 2h 30m | 194 | 413 |
| 9 | August 13, 2018 15:45 | August 13, 2018 18:15 | 2h 30m | 185 | 385 |
| 10 | August 29, 2018 16:00 | August 29, 2018 19:30 | 3h 30m | 135 | 238 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ward 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 74 min | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.87 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county