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2020 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2761st 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 Grand Forks 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 | April 2, 2020 01:30 | April 2, 2020 03:15 | 1h 45m | 1,543 | 1,927 |
| 2 | August 9, 2020 02:00 | August 9, 2020 09:15 | 7h 15m | 1,540 | 3,085 |
| 3 | September 17, 2020 02:00 | September 17, 2020 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,007 | 979 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020 01:45 | July 25, 2020 23:00 | 21h 15m | 845 | 4,184 |
| 5 | August 30, 2020 16:45 | August 30, 2020 18:30 | 1h 45m | 794 | 597 |
| 6 | August 14, 2020 16:45 | August 14, 2020 22:30 | 5h 45m | 765 | 1,757 |
| 7 | June 18, 2020 01:45 | June 18, 2020 11:15 | 9h 30m | 655 | 947 |
| 8 | June 8, 2020 02:30 | June 8, 2020 08:00 | 5h 30m | 652 | 1,242 |
| 9 | December 25, 2020 19:00 | December 25, 2020 23:00 | 4h | 549 | 553 |
| 10 | August 13, 2020 03:45 | August 13, 2020 09:45 | 6h | 505 | 2,904 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 Grand Forks 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.59 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county