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2020 Steele County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Steele County, ND went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 2,720 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1417th 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 Steele 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 25, 2020 19:30 | June 25, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 429 | 107 |
| 2 | July 25, 2020 02:00 | July 25, 2020 04:15 | 2h 15m | 429 | 965 |
| 3 | June 8, 2020 02:30 | June 8, 2020 05:45 | 3h 15m | 244 | 793 |
| 4 | June 18, 2020 00:45 | June 18, 2020 03:00 | 2h 15m | 244 | 549 |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 15:00 | July 23, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 244 | 219 |
| 6 | August 21, 2020 15:15 | August 21, 2020 15:45 | 30m | 173 | 87 |
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 Steele 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hope - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sharon- (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 557 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county