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2020 Sioux County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sioux County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 830 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2870th 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 Sioux County, 2020
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 19, 2020 16:45 | June 19, 2020 18:15 | 1h 30m | 90 | 121 |
| 2 | August 14, 2020 11:00 | August 14, 2020 12:15 | 1h 15m | 89 | 110 |
| 3 | January 17, 2020 16:00 | January 17, 2020 18:15 | 2h 15m | 88 | 198 |
| 4 | April 6, 2020 07:30 | April 6, 2020 10:00 | 2h 30m | 88 | 220 |
| 5 | August 12, 2020 06:30 | August 12, 2020 08:30 | 2h | 88 | 171 |
| 6 | October 2, 2020 16:15 | October 2, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 40 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 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 Sioux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 2,559 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. Sioux County has data for 2019–2023, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sioux 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/sioux-county