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2019 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 583 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 2707th 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 Kidder 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 | August 5, 2019 12:15 | August 5, 2019 15:30 | 3h 15m | 462 | 387 |
| 2 | September 27, 2019 16:30 | September 27, 2019 22:15 | 5h 45m | 22 | 105 |
| 3 | October 12, 2019 06:45 | October 12, 2019 08:00 | 1h 15m | 22 | 28 |
| 4 | July 3, 2019 06:00 | July 3, 2019 06:15 | 15m | 21 | 5 |
| 5 | July 24, 2019 18:15 | July 24, 2019 20:00 | 1h 45m | 9 | 12 |
| 6 | July 24, 2019 16:15 | July 24, 2019 17:15 | 1h | 8 | 8 |
| 7 | August 8, 2019 18:00 | August 8, 2019 19:45 | 1h 45m | 7 | 12 |
| 8 | August 14, 2019 18:00 | August 14, 2019 21:15 | 3h 15m | 6 | 18 |
| 9 | August 9, 2019 16:00 | August 9, 2019 17:15 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | July 13, 2019 18:00 | July 13, 2019 19:15 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 1 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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county