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2022 Bottineau County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bottineau County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 3,268 customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2805th 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 Bottineau 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 | July 23, 2022 02:00 | July 23, 2022 09:00 | 7h | 353 | 1,338 |
| 2 | April 19, 2022 15:30 | April 19, 2022 17:00 | 1h 30m | 203 | 305 |
| 3 | July 5, 2022 12:00 | July 5, 2022 13:15 | 1h 15m | 200 | 250 |
| 4 | April 24, 2022 05:45 | April 24, 2022 20:15 | 14h 30m | 83 | 1,203 |
| 5 | August 30, 2022 23:45 | August 31, 2022 00:30 | 45m | 35 | 26 |
| 6 | July 11, 2022 02:00 | July 11, 2022 02:15 | 15m | 28 | 7 |
| 7 | May 26, 2022 14:00 | May 26, 2022 14:15 | 15m | 15 | 4 |
| 8 | September 24, 2022 11:00 | September 24, 2022 17:00 | 6h | 15 | 86 |
| 9 | June 1, 2022 08:15 | June 1, 2022 10:15 | 2h | 13 | 26 |
| 10 | August 2, 2022 16:00 | August 2, 2022 17:45 | 1h 45m | 13 | 23 |
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 Bottineau 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 7.4 hrs | 0.77 | 42 min | 0.56 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,131 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. Bottineau County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bottineau 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/bottineau-county