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2020 Bottineau County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bottineau County, ND went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1294th 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 Bottineau 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 7, 2020 03:15 | June 7, 2020 04:00 | 45m | 1,398 | 1,049 |
| 2 | June 7, 2020 05:30 | June 7, 2020 05:45 | 15m | 1,198 | 300 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 20:15 | July 21, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 1,198 | 300 |
| 4 | June 29, 2020 01:15 | June 29, 2020 06:15 | 5h | 302 | 533 |
| 5 | September 19, 2020 19:00 | September 19, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 282 | 71 |
| 6 | July 11, 2020 06:45 | July 11, 2020 07:15 | 30m | 262 | 69 |
| 7 | June 29, 2020 19:45 | July 2, 2020 13:30 | 2d 17h | 203 | 13K |
| 8 | September 14, 2020 20:15 | September 17, 2020 15:15 | 2d 19h | 203 | 13K |
| 9 | September 21, 2020 03:45 | September 21, 2020 05:45 | 2h | 200 | 400 |
| 10 | June 7, 2020 08:15 | June 7, 2020 08:30 | 15m | 86 | 22 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Bottineau 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec 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 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,131 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. Bottineau County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bottineau 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/bottineau-county