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2022 Benson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benson County, ND went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 3,033 customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2524th 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 Benson County, 2022
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 13, 2022 17:45 | May 13, 2022 19:15 | 1h 30m | 288 | 232 |
| 2 | October 20, 2022 14:15 | October 20, 2022 18:45 | 4h 30m | 260 | 1,170 |
| 3 | December 27, 2022 19:45 | December 27, 2022 23:15 | 3h 30m | 140 | 460 |
| 4 | June 5, 2022 22:45 | June 5, 2022 23:15 | 30m | 70 | 35 |
| 5 | July 23, 2022 03:15 | July 25, 2022 17:30 | 2d 14h | 45 | 766 |
| 6 | June 24, 2022 23:15 | June 27, 2022 12:45 | 2d 13h | 6 | 369 |
| 7 | August 12, 2022 14:30 | August 12, 2022 15:30 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 Benson 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maddock - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,086 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. Benson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benson 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/benson-county