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2020 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2804th 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 Ward 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 | November 5, 2020 17:15 | November 5, 2020 21:00 | 3h 45m | 7,227 | 5,422 |
| 2 | March 12, 2020 02:00 | March 12, 2020 20:15 | 18h 15m | 2,745 | 2,806 |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 20:45 | April 8, 2020 22:00 | 1h 15m | 2,695 | 680 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 14:30 | June 30, 2020 16:00 | 1h 30m | 1,623 | 828 |
| 5 | November 20, 2020 07:15 | November 20, 2020 09:15 | 2h | 1,263 | 2,210 |
| 6 | May 12, 2020 14:15 | May 12, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 1,223 | 2,141 |
| 7 | April 24, 2020 01:30 | April 24, 2020 02:45 | 1h 15m | 950 | 1,186 |
| 8 | July 8, 2020 05:00 | July 8, 2020 13:30 | 8h 30m | 679 | 1,174 |
| 9 | August 4, 2020 19:00 | August 4, 2020 21:45 | 2h 45m | 658 | 949 |
| 10 | July 4, 2020 09:00 | July 4, 2020 10:00 | 1h | 645 | 610 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Ward 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county