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2020 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2701st 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 McKenzie 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 | March 20, 2020 12:45 | March 30, 2020 13:00 | 10d | 1,501 | 9,259 |
| 2 | February 25, 2020 09:00 | February 26, 2020 20:00 | 1d 11h | 1,308 | 824 |
| 3 | April 15, 2020 06:15 | April 15, 2020 22:15 | 16h | 1,289 | 691 |
| 4 | September 22, 2020 18:00 | September 22, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 541 | 135 |
| 5 | May 12, 2020 05:30 | May 12, 2020 05:45 | 15m | 499 | 125 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 18:30 | June 13, 2020 13:15 | 18h 45m | 246 | 454 |
| 7 | May 13, 2020 23:00 | May 14, 2020 03:00 | 4h | 188 | 348 |
| 8 | August 23, 2020 23:30 | August 23, 2020 23:45 | 15m | 116 | 29 |
| 9 | March 10, 2020 15:00 | March 10, 2020 17:00 | 2h | 70 | 71 |
| 10 | January 5, 2020 07:00 | January 5, 2020 09:00 | 2h | 43 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 McKenzie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county