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2019 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 6,626 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 984th 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 Burke 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 | April 28, 2019 20:00 | April 29, 2019 10:15 | 14h 15m | 452 | 3,342 |
| 2 | December 26, 2019 07:00 | December 26, 2019 11:00 | 4h | 268 | 953 |
| 3 | June 19, 2019 13:00 | June 19, 2019 21:30 | 8h 30m | 171 | 1,371 |
| 4 | July 9, 2019 14:15 | July 9, 2019 17:00 | 2h 45m | 70 | 191 |
| 5 | September 2, 2019 13:15 | September 2, 2019 21:15 | 8h | 66 | 184 |
| 6 | November 26, 2019 15:00 | November 26, 2019 16:30 | 1h 30m | 66 | 99 |
| 7 | August 1, 2019 22:45 | August 1, 2019 23:45 | 1h | 49 | 26 |
| 8 | June 11, 2019 02:15 | June 11, 2019 04:00 | 1h 45m | 46 | 77 |
| 9 | August 22, 2019 15:45 | August 22, 2019 18:15 | 2h 30m | 43 | 45 |
| 10 | December 21, 2019 05:45 | December 21, 2019 08:45 | 3h | 43 | 48 |
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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 53% of North Dakota's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/north-dakota/burke-county