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2019 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 8,898 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 1163rd 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 Sargent 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 | December 28, 2019 17:30 | December 30, 2019 23:30 | 2d 6h | 297 | 5,020 |
| 2 | August 17, 2019 14:30 | August 17, 2019 17:15 | 2h 45m | 291 | 148 |
| 3 | December 26, 2019 02:45 | December 27, 2019 17:00 | 1d 14h | 117 | 1,499 |
| 4 | June 3, 2019 16:30 | June 3, 2019 18:15 | 1h 45m | 102 | 27 |
| 5 | November 18, 2019 12:30 | November 18, 2019 14:30 | 2h | 79 | 111 |
| 6 | March 29, 2019 15:30 | April 1, 2019 15:15 | 2d 23h | 67 | 225 |
| 7 | August 6, 2019 04:30 | August 6, 2019 11:15 | 6h 45m | 66 | 216 |
| 8 | March 23, 2019 02:30 | March 23, 2019 14:30 | 12h | 63 | 571 |
| 9 | June 14, 2019 13:45 | June 14, 2019 19:30 | 5h 45m | 42 | 110 |
| 10 | June 22, 2019 02:30 | June 24, 2019 12:30 | 2d 10h | 36 | 115 |
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 Sargent 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 Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.45 | 70 min | 1.25 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county