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2021 Bowman County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bowman County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 1,823 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2764th 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 Bowman 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 | September 28, 2021 20:15 | September 28, 2021 21:00 | 45m | 919 | 689 |
| 2 | November 13, 2021 20:15 | November 13, 2021 23:15 | 3h | 91 | 273 |
| 3 | February 22, 2021 20:45 | February 22, 2021 23:15 | 2h 30m | 90 | 217 |
| 4 | March 29, 2021 16:30 | March 29, 2021 18:00 | 1h 30m | 89 | 133 |
| 5 | January 14, 2021 07:00 | January 14, 2021 12:30 | 5h 30m | 46 | 251 |
| 6 | June 9, 2021 00:00 | June 9, 2021 03:00 | 3h | 32 | 72 |
| 7 | October 13, 2021 11:45 | October 13, 2021 14:45 | 3h | 20 | 59 |
| 8 | July 17, 2021 21:15 | July 18, 2021 01:45 | 4h 30m | 13 | 59 |
| 9 | October 17, 2021 07:00 | October 17, 2021 07:15 | 15m | 11 | 3 |
| 10 | October 13, 2021 15:45 | October 13, 2021 16:15 | 30m | 10 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 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 Bowman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 88 min | 1.35 | 88 min | 1.35 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Slope 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,623 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. Bowman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowman 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/bowman-county