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2021 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 2,274 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2246th 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 Burke 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 | January 14, 2021 08:00 | January 14, 2021 16:30 | 8h 30m | 431 | 1,102 |
| 2 | September 3, 2021 10:30 | September 3, 2021 10:45 | 15m | 173 | 43 |
| 3 | July 9, 2021 01:15 | July 9, 2021 01:30 | 15m | 168 | 42 |
| 4 | January 13, 2021 20:15 | January 13, 2021 22:15 | 2h | 164 | 327 |
| 5 | September 18, 2021 23:00 | September 19, 2021 02:00 | 3h | 162 | 479 |
| 6 | February 14, 2021 09:00 | February 14, 2021 09:15 | 15m | 79 | 20 |
| 7 | December 30, 2021 02:00 | December 30, 2021 04:00 | 2h | 28 | 24 |
| 8 | September 7, 2021 18:00 | September 7, 2021 21:00 | 3h | 27 | 81 |
| 9 | December 30, 2021 00:45 | December 30, 2021 01:15 | 30m | 20 | 7 |
| 10 | December 15, 2021 15:00 | December 15, 2021 15:45 | 45m | 17 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/north-dakota/burke-county