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2019 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 2,924 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 2715th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 2, 2019 22:00 | September 3, 2019 07:30 | 9h 30m | 296 | 886 |
| 2 | August 28, 2019 15:30 | August 28, 2019 19:00 | 3h 30m | 185 | 648 |
| 3 | December 25, 2019 18:15 | December 25, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 125 | 106 |
| 4 | August 5, 2019 09:15 | August 5, 2019 13:00 | 3h 45m | 94 | 305 |
| 5 | October 17, 2019 18:15 | October 17, 2019 18:30 | 15m | 81 | 20 |
| 6 | May 24, 2019 22:45 | May 25, 2019 00:45 | 2h | 73 | 104 |
| 7 | February 25, 2019 12:15 | February 25, 2019 13:15 | 1h | 53 | 53 |
| 8 | September 27, 2019 16:45 | September 27, 2019 18:15 | 1h 30m | 40 | 58 |
| 9 | October 18, 2019 22:15 | October 18, 2019 23:30 | 1h 15m | 38 | 21 |
| 10 | July 15, 2019 14:15 | July 15, 2019 20:15 | 6h | 34 | 74 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 3 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 45 min | 0.72 | 34 min | 0.62 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 53% of North Dakota's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-dakota/barnes-county