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2019 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,350 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 2826th 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 McKenzie 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 17, 2019 17:15 | August 17, 2019 23:00 | 5h 45m | 186 | 455 |
| 2 | August 19, 2019 17:45 | August 19, 2019 21:15 | 3h 30m | 65 | 156 |
| 3 | August 4, 2019 21:15 | August 5, 2019 00:30 | 3h 15m | 52 | 50 |
| 4 | June 17, 2019 17:45 | June 17, 2019 18:00 | 15m | 46 | 12 |
| 5 | August 12, 2019 06:30 | August 12, 2019 09:45 | 3h 15m | 36 | 82 |
| 6 | October 3, 2019 01:00 | October 3, 2019 03:30 | 2h 30m | 35 | 81 |
| 7 | August 7, 2019 23:15 | August 8, 2019 02:45 | 3h 30m | 24 | 61 |
| 8 | July 19, 2019 14:00 | July 19, 2019 15:30 | 1h 30m | 23 | 30 |
| 9 | June 26, 2019 22:15 | June 26, 2019 22:30 | 15m | 22 | 6 |
| 10 | July 11, 2019 02:30 | July 11, 2019 03:15 | 45m | 22 | 9 |
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 McKenzie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county