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2020 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 3,914 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2900th 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 Morton 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 | May 6, 2020 19:15 | May 6, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 931 | 233 |
| 2 | June 30, 2020 05:00 | June 30, 2020 08:00 | 3h | 447 | 1,326 |
| 3 | June 25, 2020 04:15 | June 25, 2020 09:00 | 4h 45m | 183 | 869 |
| 4 | November 4, 2020 04:00 | November 4, 2020 11:45 | 7h 45m | 166 | 310 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 02:30 | July 9, 2020 04:15 | 1h 45m | 126 | 218 |
| 6 | June 28, 2020 22:00 | June 29, 2020 00:15 | 2h 15m | 123 | 246 |
| 7 | July 27, 2020 11:30 | July 27, 2020 11:45 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 8 | August 14, 2020 14:15 | August 14, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 51 | 13 |
| 9 | May 9, 2020 10:15 | May 9, 2020 15:15 | 5h | 43 | 101 |
| 10 | November 27, 2020 20:00 | November 27, 2020 21:00 | 1h | 38 | 38 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Morton 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county