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2020 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2490th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 1, 2020 02:30 | February 1, 2020 03:15 | 45m | 611 | 324 |
| 2 | February 2, 2020 22:45 | February 3, 2020 00:30 | 1h 45m | 533 | 532 |
| 3 | June 18, 2020 00:15 | June 18, 2020 06:15 | 6h | 508 | 2,008 |
| 4 | June 8, 2020 01:45 | June 8, 2020 12:00 | 10h 15m | 408 | 1,465 |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 01:15 | August 10, 2020 02:15 | 1h | 393 | 393 |
| 6 | May 14, 2020 01:15 | May 14, 2020 06:30 | 5h 15m | 363 | 590 |
| 7 | May 27, 2020 15:30 | May 27, 2020 22:00 | 6h 30m | 350 | 232 |
| 8 | July 22, 2020 05:45 | July 22, 2020 06:00 | 15m | 336 | 84 |
| 9 | September 14, 2020 19:15 | September 14, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 296 | 74 |
| 10 | January 31, 2020 16:30 | February 1, 2020 01:15 | 8h 45m | 293 | 259 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.59 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.74 | 5.0 hrs | 2.63 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 48 min | 0.58 | 27 min | 0.44 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/north-dakota/barnes-county