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2020 Ramsey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ramsey County, ND went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1659th 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 Ramsey 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 | January 10, 2020 17:00 | January 10, 2020 17:15 | 15m | 334 | 84 |
| 2 | July 17, 2020 20:30 | July 17, 2020 22:15 | 1h 45m | 180 | 144 |
| 3 | December 9, 2020 14:30 | December 9, 2020 20:45 | 6h 15m | 167 | 1,044 |
| 4 | May 1, 2020 15:15 | May 4, 2020 13:30 | 2d 22h | 137 | 9,624 |
| 5 | May 21, 2020 14:15 | May 22, 2020 20:30 | 1d 6h | 137 | 4,144 |
| 6 | July 25, 2020 02:15 | July 25, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 135 | 34 |
| 7 | September 3, 2020 00:15 | September 3, 2020 04:45 | 4h 30m | 106 | 111 |
| 8 | November 4, 2020 16:00 | November 4, 2020 17:45 | 1h 45m | 67 | 105 |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 10:45 | July 4, 2020 14:30 | 3h 45m | 62 | 217 |
| 10 | August 20, 2020 11:30 | August 20, 2020 13:00 | 1h 30m | 46 | 69 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.74 | 5.0 hrs | 2.63 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cavalier Rural Elec 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 ÷ 4,176 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. Ramsey County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county