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2020 Dickey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dickey County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 2,580 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2660th 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 Dickey 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 8, 2020 04:15 | June 8, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 902 | 226 |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 03:45 | June 18, 2020 04:00 | 15m | 902 | 226 |
| 3 | July 8, 2020 13:00 | July 8, 2020 13:15 | 15m | 902 | 226 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020 04:15 | July 25, 2020 05:00 | 45m | 902 | 677 |
| 5 | May 5, 2020 18:15 | May 5, 2020 19:30 | 1h 15m | 87 | 109 |
| 6 | October 20, 2020 17:15 | October 20, 2020 19:45 | 2h 30m | 78 | 135 |
| 7 | December 19, 2020 19:00 | December 19, 2020 19:45 | 45m | 76 | 57 |
| 8 | July 23, 2020 19:45 | July 23, 2020 21:00 | 1h 15m | 64 | 80 |
| 9 | June 2, 2020 06:00 | June 2, 2020 08:15 | 2h 15m | 62 | 137 |
| 10 | January 30, 2020 15:30 | January 31, 2020 13:15 | 21h 45m | 29 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Dickey 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.62 | 1.6 hrs | 0.56 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 48 min | 0.58 | 27 min | 0.44 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 2.06 | 3.5 hrs | 2.04 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,595 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. Dickey County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickey 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/dickey-county