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2020 Stark County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Stark County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2826th 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 Stark 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 | July 8, 2020 03:00 | July 9, 2020 09:15 | 1d 6h | 2,286 | 3,574 |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 23:15 | May 2, 2020 13:15 | 1d 14h | 1,206 | 1,666 |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 13:30 | August 15, 2020 16:30 | 3h | 771 | 2,130 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 01:30 | June 30, 2020 18:00 | 16h 30m | 622 | 1,763 |
| 5 | October 17, 2020 06:45 | October 17, 2020 09:30 | 2h 45m | 580 | 1,322 |
| 6 | June 25, 2020 13:15 | June 25, 2020 17:00 | 3h 45m | 391 | 173 |
| 7 | June 25, 2020 01:45 | June 25, 2020 09:15 | 7h 30m | 96 | 107 |
| 8 | November 18, 2020 07:00 | November 18, 2020 11:45 | 4h 45m | 88 | 244 |
| 9 | December 10, 2020 21:15 | December 10, 2020 21:30 | 15m | 85 | 21 |
| 10 | August 8, 2020 02:45 | August 8, 2020 04:15 | 1h 30m | 72 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Stark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,614 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. Stark County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stark 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/stark-county