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2020 Traill County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Traill County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,545 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2856th 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 Traill 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 25, 2020 00:15 | July 25, 2020 03:15 | 3h | 457 | 615 |
| 2 | April 2, 2020 16:15 | April 2, 2020 18:00 | 1h 45m | 207 | 209 |
| 3 | May 23, 2020 15:00 | May 24, 2020 01:15 | 10h 15m | 36 | 234 |
| 4 | June 18, 2020 05:45 | June 18, 2020 08:30 | 2h 45m | 26 | 54 |
| 5 | August 8, 2020 16:45 | August 8, 2020 17:45 | 1h | 26 | 26 |
| 6 | November 10, 2020 17:15 | November 10, 2020 18:45 | 1h 30m | 26 | 39 |
| 7 | October 12, 2020 21:30 | October 13, 2020 06:30 | 9h | 15 | 93 |
| 8 | June 8, 2020 02:45 | June 8, 2020 10:15 | 7h 30m | 10 | 61 |
| 9 | November 18, 2020 21:15 | November 18, 2020 23:45 | 2h 30m | 10 | 23 |
| 10 | March 3, 2020 16:30 | March 3, 2020 17:45 | 1h 15m | 9 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 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 Traill 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.59 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 48 min | 0.58 | 27 min | 0.44 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hillsboro - (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 ÷ 4,104 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. Traill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traill 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/traill-county