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2022 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2633rd 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 McKenzie 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 | April 23, 2022 23:15 | April 26, 2022 22:15 | 2d 23h | 838 | 8,708 |
| 2 | November 12, 2022 14:00 | November 12, 2022 18:15 | 4h 15m | 555 | 2,278 |
| 3 | September 22, 2022 21:30 | September 22, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 530 | 268 |
| 4 | April 3, 2022 21:30 | April 13, 2022 21:30 | 10d | 526 | 4,045 |
| 5 | May 23, 2022 18:30 | May 23, 2022 18:45 | 15m | 286 | 72 |
| 6 | January 3, 2022 13:30 | January 3, 2022 14:30 | 1h | 105 | 105 |
| 7 | January 6, 2022 01:00 | January 6, 2022 02:00 | 1h | 94 | 89 |
| 8 | August 30, 2022 14:00 | August 31, 2022 01:15 | 11h 15m | 87 | 428 |
| 9 | October 16, 2022 09:00 | October 16, 2022 11:15 | 2h 15m | 71 | 142 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 16:00 | December 24, 2022 02:15 | 10h 15m | 25 | 104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 McKenzie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county