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2020 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,944 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2531st 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 Kidder 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 8, 2020 14:45 | November 8, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 413 | 208 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 06:15 | July 8, 2020 08:15 | 2h | 313 | 407 |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 00:30 | August 11, 2020 01:15 | 45m | 306 | 230 |
| 4 | May 23, 2020 23:30 | May 24, 2020 00:00 | 30m | 139 | 70 |
| 5 | May 24, 2020 08:00 | May 24, 2020 08:15 | 15m | 139 | 35 |
| 6 | June 17, 2020 07:00 | June 17, 2020 11:00 | 4h | 139 | 556 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 00:45 | July 18, 2020 01:00 | 15m | 139 | 35 |
| 8 | September 4, 2020 20:30 | September 4, 2020 21:15 | 45m | 139 | 104 |
| 9 | June 8, 2020 00:15 | June 8, 2020 00:30 | 15m | 95 | 24 |
| 10 | May 1, 2020 21:00 | May 1, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 91 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.74 | 5.0 hrs | 2.63 |
| 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county