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2020 Emmons County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Emmons County, ND went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 4,684 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2463rd 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 Emmons 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 | September 24, 2020 03:30 | September 24, 2020 05:45 | 2h 15m | 958 | 1,971 |
| 2 | September 30, 2020 11:15 | September 30, 2020 12:30 | 1h 15m | 946 | 1,183 |
| 3 | March 9, 2020 17:00 | March 9, 2020 17:45 | 45m | 252 | 189 |
| 4 | July 5, 2020 08:15 | July 5, 2020 09:00 | 45m | 250 | 188 |
| 5 | July 25, 2020 00:00 | July 25, 2020 01:00 | 1h | 235 | 180 |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 15:45 | June 10, 2020 16:00 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 7 | August 11, 2020 00:30 | August 11, 2020 01:15 | 45m | 56 | 42 |
| 8 | July 8, 2020 06:15 | July 8, 2020 08:15 | 2h | 52 | 91 |
| 9 | January 17, 2020 15:15 | January 17, 2020 19:45 | 4h 30m | 49 | 181 |
| 10 | April 25, 2020 08:00 | April 25, 2020 11:15 | 3h 15m | 47 | 153 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Emmons 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 3,111 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. Emmons County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Emmons 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/emmons-county