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2022 Nelson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Nelson County, ND went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 642nd 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 Nelson 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 | March 19, 2022 21:30 | March 21, 2022 13:45 | 1d 16h | 511 | 7,371 |
| 2 | May 13, 2022 22:15 | May 13, 2022 22:30 | 15m | 511 | 128 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 14:00 | May 12, 2022 23:15 | 9h 15m | 410 | 3,793 |
| 4 | February 21, 2022 16:15 | February 21, 2022 16:30 | 15m | 332 | 83 |
| 5 | May 13, 2022 23:45 | May 14, 2022 00:00 | 15m | 179 | 45 |
| 6 | August 17, 2022 11:15 | August 17, 2022 13:15 | 2h | 179 | 358 |
| 7 | July 23, 2022 10:30 | July 23, 2022 18:30 | 8h | 95 | 760 |
| 8 | July 10, 2022 13:00 | July 11, 2022 12:45 | 23h 45m | 44 | 1,045 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 16:15 | December 24, 2022 06:00 | 13h 45m | 7 | 96 |
| 10 | March 9, 2022 15:15 | March 9, 2022 17:15 | 2h | 4 | 8 |
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 Nelson 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lakota - (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 ÷ 1,239 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. Nelson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county