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2021 Dickey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dickey County, ND went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1480th 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 Dickey 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 | June 8, 2021 00:15 | June 8, 2021 17:45 | 17h 30m | 376 | 1,475 |
| 2 | July 17, 2021 11:30 | July 17, 2021 11:45 | 15m | 352 | 88 |
| 3 | September 30, 2021 17:00 | October 1, 2021 16:45 | 23h 45m | 187 | 406 |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 08:30 | June 11, 2021 16:45 | 8h 15m | 172 | 795 |
| 5 | November 7, 2021 16:45 | November 7, 2021 17:30 | 45m | 147 | 108 |
| 6 | February 3, 2021 01:30 | February 3, 2021 05:00 | 3h 30m | 141 | 373 |
| 7 | February 3, 2021 17:15 | February 3, 2021 18:00 | 45m | 141 | 77 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 14:15 | September 30, 2021 05:30 | 15h 15m | 101 | 1,192 |
| 9 | April 6, 2021 23:00 | April 7, 2021 00:30 | 1h 30m | 89 | 134 |
| 10 | September 30, 2021 06:15 | September 30, 2021 14:15 | 8h | 88 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 8 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 Dickey 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 1.20 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 47 min | 0.54 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.41 | 77 min | 0.36 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,595 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. Dickey County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickey 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/dickey-county