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2020 Benson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benson County, ND went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 6,026 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1914th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benson 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 | June 17, 2020 13:00 | June 17, 2020 14:15 | 1h 15m | 314 | 393 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 14:00 | August 4, 2020 15:00 | 1h | 314 | 314 |
| 3 | July 8, 2020 06:30 | July 8, 2020 09:15 | 2h 45m | 305 | 740 |
| 4 | July 8, 2020 15:00 | July 8, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 283 | 330 |
| 5 | June 16, 2020 05:15 | June 16, 2020 05:30 | 15m | 147 | 37 |
| 6 | November 18, 2020 19:30 | November 18, 2020 20:00 | 30m | 111 | 56 |
| 7 | July 25, 2020 02:00 | July 25, 2020 03:30 | 1h 30m | 100 | 150 |
| 8 | October 22, 2020 04:15 | October 22, 2020 06:00 | 1h 45m | 100 | 175 |
| 9 | April 22, 2020 14:00 | April 22, 2020 14:30 | 30m | 70 | 35 |
| 10 | January 16, 2020 16:00 | January 16, 2020 22:30 | 6h 30m | 51 | 332 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Benson 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maddock - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,086 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. Benson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benson 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/benson-county