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2022 Mercer County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mercer County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 2,005 customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2879th 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 Mercer 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 24, 2022 04:45 | April 24, 2022 09:15 | 4h 30m | 177 | 628 |
| 2 | May 26, 2022 14:30 | May 26, 2022 17:15 | 2h 45m | 151 | 406 |
| 3 | December 24, 2022 19:30 | December 24, 2022 19:45 | 15m | 151 | 38 |
| 4 | May 9, 2022 01:00 | May 9, 2022 03:15 | 2h 15m | 150 | 338 |
| 5 | May 8, 2022 19:00 | May 8, 2022 20:45 | 1h 45m | 149 | 257 |
| 6 | November 13, 2022 17:45 | November 13, 2022 18:30 | 45m | 73 | 55 |
| 7 | December 8, 2022 13:15 | December 8, 2022 14:45 | 1h 30m | 68 | 102 |
| 8 | March 17, 2022 15:45 | March 17, 2022 16:45 | 1h | 49 | 47 |
| 9 | February 20, 2022 21:45 | February 20, 2022 23:30 | 1h 45m | 17 | 24 |
| 10 | September 9, 2022 22:15 | September 10, 2022 02:45 | 4h 30m | 15 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 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 Mercer 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Basin Electric Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stanton - (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 ÷ 6,015 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. Mercer County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county