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2020 Bowman County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bowman County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 908 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2865th 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 Bowman County, 2020
The 8 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 02:30 | June 7, 2020 04:15 | 1h 45m | 210 | 364 |
| 2 | May 9, 2020 15:00 | May 9, 2020 18:00 | 3h | 90 | 265 |
| 3 | July 22, 2020 23:00 | July 23, 2020 05:30 | 6h 30m | 48 | 155 |
| 4 | August 12, 2020 00:00 | August 12, 2020 03:00 | 3h | 22 | 54 |
| 5 | June 18, 2020 19:45 | June 18, 2020 21:30 | 1h 45m | 18 | 31 |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 08:45 | May 23, 2020 09:00 | 15m | 17 | 4 |
| 7 | June 26, 2020 16:15 | June 26, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 13 | 29 |
| 8 | March 16, 2020 16:30 | March 16, 2020 17:00 | 30m | 12 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Bowman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Slope 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 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,623 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. Bowman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowman 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/bowman-county