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2020 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 3,160 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2398th 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 Sargent 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 | June 9, 2020 06:30 | June 9, 2020 06:45 | 15m | 690 | 173 |
| 2 | July 25, 2020 04:15 | July 25, 2020 06:00 | 1h 45m | 668 | 475 |
| 3 | June 8, 2020 03:00 | June 8, 2020 17:30 | 14h 30m | 605 | 1,528 |
| 4 | August 14, 2020 14:15 | August 14, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 555 | 139 |
| 5 | August 15, 2020 20:30 | August 15, 2020 20:45 | 15m | 555 | 139 |
| 6 | October 19, 2020 16:45 | October 19, 2020 17:00 | 15m | 555 | 139 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 19:15 | April 8, 2020 19:45 | 30m | 97 | 49 |
| 8 | September 23, 2020 18:00 | September 23, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 78 | 20 |
| 9 | April 2, 2020 16:15 | April 2, 2020 17:45 | 1h 30m | 73 | 110 |
| 10 | September 26, 2020 00:00 | September 26, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 68 | 17 |
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 Sargent 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.62 | 1.6 hrs | 0.56 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county