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2021 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2774th 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 Ward 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 | September 10, 2021 12:15 | September 11, 2021 19:45 | 1d 7h | 7,447 | 7,912 |
| 2 | January 13, 2021 14:45 | January 13, 2021 18:15 | 3h 30m | 2,578 | 3,339 |
| 3 | January 14, 2021 08:45 | January 16, 2021 01:30 | 1d 16h | 1,986 | 12K |
| 4 | April 11, 2021 18:00 | April 11, 2021 20:30 | 2h 30m | 327 | 493 |
| 5 | August 31, 2021 22:45 | September 1, 2021 04:15 | 5h 30m | 292 | 1,606 |
| 6 | March 30, 2021 13:15 | March 30, 2021 14:45 | 1h 30m | 211 | 317 |
| 7 | September 30, 2021 09:15 | September 30, 2021 10:15 | 1h | 151 | 127 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 09:45 | September 29, 2021 10:15 | 30m | 147 | 74 |
| 9 | October 12, 2021 04:30 | October 12, 2021 06:00 | 1h 30m | 131 | 187 |
| 10 | April 27, 2021 16:15 | April 27, 2021 18:30 | 2h 15m | 116 | 128 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ward 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 88 min | 1.35 | 88 min | 1.35 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county