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2020 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 5,091 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2650th 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 Richland 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 | September 27, 2020 22:15 | September 27, 2020 22:30 | 15m | 941 | 235 |
| 2 | October 31, 2020 21:30 | October 31, 2020 21:45 | 15m | 941 | 235 |
| 3 | November 15, 2020 09:00 | November 15, 2020 09:15 | 15m | 941 | 235 |
| 4 | May 13, 2020 19:30 | May 13, 2020 20:00 | 30m | 723 | 253 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 06:00 | July 10, 2020 14:15 | 1d 8h | 657 | 1,433 |
| 6 | August 3, 2020 18:30 | August 3, 2020 19:00 | 30m | 641 | 321 |
| 7 | April 28, 2020 07:15 | April 28, 2020 08:45 | 1h 30m | 635 | 433 |
| 8 | July 26, 2020 06:45 | July 26, 2020 07:00 | 15m | 410 | 103 |
| 9 | May 25, 2020 04:15 | May 25, 2020 04:45 | 30m | 230 | 115 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 03:15 | June 8, 2020 06:30 | 3h 15m | 221 | 389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Richland 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 48 min | 0.58 | 27 min | 0.44 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 2.06 | 3.5 hrs | 2.04 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county