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2021 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1442nd 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 Richland 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 03:15 | June 9, 2021 00:00 | 20h 45m | 1,067 | 6,930 |
| 2 | July 20, 2021 20:30 | July 20, 2021 20:45 | 15m | 575 | 144 |
| 3 | January 15, 2021 16:15 | January 15, 2021 16:30 | 15m | 567 | 142 |
| 4 | January 13, 2021 19:15 | January 13, 2021 19:30 | 15m | 554 | 139 |
| 5 | March 1, 2021 17:00 | March 1, 2021 17:15 | 15m | 435 | 109 |
| 6 | July 24, 2021 05:15 | August 12, 2021 19:00 | 19d 13h | 426 | 3,595 |
| 7 | August 26, 2021 20:45 | August 26, 2021 21:15 | 30m | 277 | 71 |
| 8 | September 28, 2021 14:00 | September 28, 2021 17:45 | 3h 45m | 259 | 468 |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 22:30 | July 17, 2021 22:45 | 15m | 258 | 65 |
| 10 | May 18, 2021 23:45 | May 19, 2021 01:30 | 1h 45m | 256 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richland 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 |
| 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county