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2019 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 1803rd 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 Richland 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 10:00 | August 5, 2019 10:15 | 15m | 438 | 110 |
| 2 | December 28, 2019 16:30 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 2d 7h | 230 | 6,524 |
| 3 | December 25, 2019 22:45 | December 27, 2019 15:30 | 1d 16h | 215 | 3,398 |
| 4 | March 14, 2019 09:45 | March 14, 2019 12:00 | 2h 15m | 150 | 124 |
| 5 | September 26, 2019 15:15 | September 26, 2019 16:30 | 1h 15m | 86 | 49 |
| 6 | August 9, 2019 14:15 | August 9, 2019 15:15 | 1h | 74 | 56 |
| 7 | August 17, 2019 22:30 | August 18, 2019 00:15 | 1h 45m | 73 | 110 |
| 8 | August 19, 2019 13:15 | August 19, 2019 19:30 | 6h 15m | 71 | 80 |
| 9 | May 3, 2019 14:30 | May 3, 2019 14:45 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 10 | September 30, 2019 06:00 | September 30, 2019 10:00 | 4h | 69 | 155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 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 Richland 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 45 min | 0.72 | 34 min | 0.62 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.53 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county