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2021 Dunn County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dunn County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,002 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2876th 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 Dunn County, 2021
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 16, 2021 13:30 | February 16, 2021 16:15 | 2h 45m | 485 | 519 |
| 2 | October 30, 2021 03:30 | October 30, 2021 04:30 | 1h | 431 | 286 |
| 3 | January 14, 2021 09:45 | January 14, 2021 11:30 | 1h 45m | 30 | 27 |
| 4 | June 6, 2021 02:15 | June 6, 2021 07:45 | 5h 30m | 28 | 147 |
| 5 | August 26, 2021 19:00 | August 26, 2021 19:15 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 6 | September 8, 2021 17:00 | September 8, 2021 20:00 | 3h | 7 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Dunn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 | 2.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,300 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. Dunn County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dunn 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/dunn-county