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2022 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2488th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2022
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 16, 2022 22:00 | September 17, 2022 01:00 | 3h | 537 | 1,360 |
| 2 | September 19, 2022 20:45 | September 19, 2022 22:30 | 1h 45m | 536 | 711 |
| 3 | September 27, 2022 09:00 | September 27, 2022 11:15 | 2h 15m | 472 | 786 |
| 4 | April 5, 2022 08:00 | April 5, 2022 13:00 | 5h | 373 | 1,791 |
| 5 | October 5, 2022 21:30 | October 5, 2022 23:45 | 2h 15m | 258 | 581 |
| 6 | December 27, 2022 20:15 | December 27, 2022 21:15 | 1h | 174 | 146 |
| 7 | June 20, 2022 22:45 | June 21, 2022 06:30 | 7h 45m | 155 | 308 |
| 8 | September 22, 2022 21:30 | September 22, 2022 21:45 | 15m | 122 | 31 |
| 9 | June 28, 2022 14:45 | June 28, 2022 15:00 | 15m | 116 | 29 |
| 10 | July 6, 2022 14:15 | July 6, 2022 16:15 | 2h | 116 | 232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 10 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 6.2 hrs | 2.20 | 2.1 hrs | 1.80 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 2.27 | 5.2 hrs | 2.18 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.35 | 39 min | 0.52 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-dakota/barnes-county