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2022 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2607th 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 Grand Forks 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 13, 2022 12:30 | September 13, 2022 22:00 | 9h 30m | 9,998 | 2,881 |
| 2 | July 23, 2022 05:45 | July 24, 2022 17:00 | 1d 11h | 3,982 | 16K |
| 3 | August 16, 2022 15:00 | August 16, 2022 19:00 | 4h | 2,803 | 3,299 |
| 4 | August 16, 2022 22:15 | August 17, 2022 00:00 | 1h 45m | 1,639 | 615 |
| 5 | April 18, 2022 20:30 | April 18, 2022 21:15 | 45m | 1,557 | 779 |
| 6 | June 18, 2022 18:30 | June 19, 2022 04:15 | 9h 45m | 1,523 | 3,354 |
| 7 | August 15, 2022 15:45 | August 15, 2022 16:45 | 1h | 1,030 | 772 |
| 8 | August 21, 2022 00:15 | August 21, 2022 10:15 | 10h | 559 | 3,922 |
| 9 | July 14, 2022 20:30 | July 15, 2022 06:45 | 10h 15m | 475 | 1,059 |
| 10 | May 24, 2022 18:45 | May 24, 2022 22:30 | 3h 45m | 248 | 683 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 25 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county