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2019 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 35 North Dakota counties and 2752nd 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 Ward 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 | September 21, 2019 18:00 | September 21, 2019 20:30 | 2h 30m | 3,983 | 5,612 |
| 2 | June 4, 2019 21:30 | June 4, 2019 22:15 | 45m | 2,738 | 685 |
| 3 | April 28, 2019 21:15 | April 29, 2019 07:15 | 10h | 267 | 1,550 |
| 4 | May 4, 2019 03:30 | May 4, 2019 06:15 | 2h 45m | 163 | 351 |
| 5 | May 6, 2019 20:45 | May 6, 2019 21:15 | 30m | 154 | 77 |
| 6 | July 13, 2019 02:00 | July 13, 2019 04:15 | 2h 15m | 144 | 324 |
| 7 | August 25, 2019 04:30 | August 25, 2019 04:45 | 15m | 139 | 35 |
| 8 | August 9, 2019 01:15 | August 9, 2019 03:30 | 2h 15m | 120 | 217 |
| 9 | August 25, 2019 14:45 | August 25, 2019 18:00 | 3h 15m | 98 | 226 |
| 10 | August 25, 2019 13:30 | August 25, 2019 13:45 | 15m | 97 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Ward 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 74 min | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.87 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county