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2021 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 3,857 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2888th 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 Morton 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 | May 5, 2021 14:45 | May 5, 2021 21:30 | 6h 45m | 796 | 843 |
| 2 | June 9, 2021 02:30 | June 9, 2021 08:00 | 5h 30m | 646 | 1,007 |
| 3 | July 27, 2021 17:30 | July 27, 2021 18:30 | 1h | 474 | 473 |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 05:15 | June 11, 2021 06:30 | 1h 15m | 442 | 550 |
| 5 | February 24, 2021 01:00 | February 24, 2021 01:15 | 15m | 352 | 88 |
| 6 | January 14, 2021 13:45 | January 14, 2021 14:45 | 1h | 145 | 130 |
| 7 | November 17, 2021 02:30 | November 17, 2021 03:45 | 1h 15m | 123 | 140 |
| 8 | June 3, 2021 11:00 | June 3, 2021 12:30 | 1h 30m | 83 | 125 |
| 9 | July 6, 2021 00:15 | July 6, 2021 00:45 | 30m | 65 | 33 |
| 10 | August 7, 2021 02:30 | August 7, 2021 05:15 | 2h 45m | 55 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county