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2020 Nelson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nelson County, ND went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 2,095 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2381st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nelson County, 2020
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 25, 2020 02:00 | July 25, 2020 05:15 | 3h 15m | 1,121 | 1,159 |
| 2 | June 8, 2020 03:30 | June 8, 2020 14:15 | 10h 45m | 542 | 596 |
| 3 | October 22, 2020 04:15 | October 22, 2020 06:00 | 1h 45m | 95 | 166 |
| 4 | July 17, 2020 21:30 | July 17, 2020 22:45 | 1h 15m | 75 | 41 |
| 5 | July 8, 2020 11:15 | July 8, 2020 11:30 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 6 | June 25, 2020 19:30 | June 25, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 31 | 8 |
| 7 | July 14, 2020 07:00 | July 14, 2020 07:45 | 45m | 31 | 23 |
| 8 | July 8, 2020 07:45 | July 8, 2020 10:30 | 2h 45m | 24 | 66 |
| 9 | July 8, 2020 17:45 | July 9, 2020 14:00 | 20h 15m | 1 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nelson 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.59 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lakota - (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 ÷ 1,239 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. Nelson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county