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2021 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 2,175 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2477th 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 Kidder 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 | October 8, 2021 05:15 | October 8, 2021 10:15 | 5h | 325 | 1,416 |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 20:00 | January 1, 2021 23:00 | 3h | 139 | 386 |
| 3 | February 2, 2021 07:45 | February 2, 2021 10:00 | 2h 15m | 139 | 313 |
| 4 | June 21, 2021 14:45 | June 21, 2021 16:00 | 1h 15m | 23 | 29 |
| 5 | June 24, 2021 15:30 | June 24, 2021 16:45 | 1h 15m | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | July 5, 2021 17:45 | July 5, 2021 18:45 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | August 17, 2021 13:30 | August 17, 2021 13:45 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
| 8 | May 10, 2021 06:30 | May 10, 2021 12:00 | 5h 30m | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | June 5, 2021 02:00 | June 5, 2021 02:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | August 24, 2021 08:45 | August 24, 2021 12:15 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.31 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county