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2019 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 2682nd 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 Grand Forks 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 | January 14, 2019 15:00 | January 14, 2019 17:15 | 2h 15m | 4,874 | 1,221 |
| 2 | July 10, 2019 16:45 | July 10, 2019 20:45 | 4h | 1,034 | 798 |
| 3 | July 17, 2019 07:15 | July 17, 2019 11:15 | 4h | 394 | 710 |
| 4 | September 30, 2019 11:45 | September 30, 2019 15:30 | 3h 45m | 384 | 923 |
| 5 | January 20, 2019 10:00 | January 20, 2019 15:45 | 5h 45m | 382 | 2,160 |
| 6 | September 5, 2019 17:15 | September 5, 2019 21:45 | 4h 30m | 362 | 1,268 |
| 7 | July 9, 2019 01:30 | July 9, 2019 05:30 | 4h | 332 | 189 |
| 8 | October 11, 2019 16:00 | October 12, 2019 17:45 | 1d 1h | 319 | 965 |
| 9 | September 9, 2019 18:45 | September 10, 2019 01:45 | 7h | 297 | 1,436 |
| 10 | July 17, 2019 12:45 | July 17, 2019 19:15 | 6h 30m | 248 | 747 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county