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2022 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 17.1 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 396th 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 Golden Valley County, 2022
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 23, 2022 20:45 | April 25, 2022 03:00 | 1d 6h | 706 | 21K |
| 2 | July 10, 2022 07:15 | July 10, 2022 23:15 | 16h | 344 | 1,843 |
| 3 | August 28, 2022 03:00 | August 28, 2022 03:15 | 15m | 59 | 15 |
| 4 | December 27, 2022 10:45 | December 27, 2022 12:45 | 2h | 57 | 112 |
| 5 | June 13, 2022 21:45 | June 13, 2022 22:45 | 1h | 53 | 53 |
| 6 | July 9, 2022 08:45 | July 9, 2022 09:00 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
| 7 | July 16, 2022 04:15 | July 16, 2022 06:00 | 1h 45m | 8 | 14 |
| 8 | June 21, 2022 21:30 | June 21, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 7 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 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 Golden Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 37.0 hrs | 2.25 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 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. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley 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/golden-valley-county