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2020 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 7,675 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1160th 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 Burke 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 | November 11, 2020 21:30 | November 12, 2020 02:45 | 5h 15m | 707 | 736 |
| 2 | February 13, 2020 14:45 | February 13, 2020 16:45 | 2h | 634 | 727 |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 02:30 | October 29, 2020 02:45 | 15m | 390 | 98 |
| 4 | May 23, 2020 22:00 | May 24, 2020 01:30 | 3h 30m | 254 | 478 |
| 5 | May 24, 2020 02:30 | May 24, 2020 05:30 | 3h | 249 | 325 |
| 6 | October 10, 2020 18:45 | October 10, 2020 20:45 | 2h | 242 | 86 |
| 7 | July 5, 2020 06:30 | July 5, 2020 12:45 | 6h 15m | 229 | 380 |
| 8 | January 9, 2020 20:30 | January 9, 2020 20:45 | 15m | 174 | 44 |
| 9 | May 25, 2020 15:00 | May 25, 2020 16:30 | 1h 30m | 118 | 107 |
| 10 | January 9, 2020 16:00 | January 9, 2020 16:15 | 15m | 74 | 19 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/north-dakota/burke-county