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2021 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,101 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2692nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2021
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 17, 2021 20:30 | November 17, 2021 21:30 | 1h | 1,483 | 978 |
| 2 | February 3, 2021 22:45 | February 4, 2021 05:30 | 6h 45m | 1,113 | 3,582 |
| 3 | February 4, 2021 08:45 | February 4, 2021 09:15 | 30m | 535 | 268 |
| 4 | April 15, 2021 18:45 | April 15, 2021 19:00 | 15m | 258 | 65 |
| 5 | June 15, 2021 18:45 | June 15, 2021 22:15 | 3h 30m | 174 | 223 |
| 6 | January 30, 2021 09:15 | January 30, 2021 10:30 | 1h 15m | 140 | 132 |
| 7 | June 11, 2021 09:00 | June 11, 2021 11:30 | 2h 30m | 90 | 125 |
| 8 | February 2, 2021 09:45 | February 2, 2021 19:15 | 9h 30m | 86 | 70 |
| 9 | July 20, 2021 03:30 | July 20, 2021 04:45 | 1h 15m | 75 | 92 |
| 10 | February 3, 2021 14:45 | February 3, 2021 16:30 | 1h 45m | 74 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 86 min | 1.13 | 74 min | 1.09 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 3.4 hrs | 1.38 | 3.4 hrs | 1.38 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.31 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 47 min | 0.54 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/north-dakota/barnes-county