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2020 Wells County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wells County, ND went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 3,442 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2100th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wells 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 13, 2020 10:00 | November 13, 2020 11:00 | 1h | 1,739 | 1,739 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 04:45 | July 8, 2020 05:45 | 1h | 1,187 | 374 |
| 3 | June 25, 2020 11:45 | June 25, 2020 15:15 | 3h 30m | 471 | 334 |
| 4 | May 27, 2020 14:15 | May 27, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 146 | 37 |
| 5 | September 3, 2020 14:15 | September 3, 2020 16:30 | 2h 15m | 139 | 313 |
| 6 | May 24, 2020 02:15 | May 24, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 103 | 26 |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 00:45 | May 26, 2020 01:00 | 15m | 103 | 26 |
| 8 | June 7, 2020 05:00 | June 7, 2020 05:15 | 15m | 103 | 26 |
| 9 | June 30, 2020 14:30 | June 30, 2020 15:15 | 45m | 103 | 77 |
| 10 | May 24, 2020 15:00 | May 24, 2020 16:30 | 1h 30m | 72 | 108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 Wells 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.74 | 5.0 hrs | 2.63 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,448 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. Wells County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county