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2022 Ransom County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ransom County, ND went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1575th 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 Ransom 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 | December 18, 2022 05:00 | December 18, 2022 07:30 | 2h 30m | 300 | 341 |
| 2 | December 20, 2022 17:30 | December 20, 2022 18:45 | 1h 15m | 299 | 244 |
| 3 | November 10, 2022 00:00 | November 10, 2022 01:00 | 1h | 297 | 119 |
| 4 | July 19, 2022 05:30 | July 19, 2022 07:45 | 2h 15m | 296 | 445 |
| 5 | April 23, 2022 02:45 | April 23, 2022 22:30 | 19h 45m | 264 | 1,269 |
| 6 | November 10, 2022 03:15 | November 17, 2022 20:45 | 7d 17h | 192 | 3,132 |
| 7 | December 15, 2022 08:45 | December 16, 2022 22:00 | 1d 13h | 173 | 2,540 |
| 8 | August 28, 2022 16:45 | August 28, 2022 18:45 | 2h | 137 | 54 |
| 9 | June 30, 2022 13:30 | June 30, 2022 17:00 | 3h 30m | 113 | 63 |
| 10 | November 22, 2022 18:30 | November 22, 2022 23:00 | 4h 30m | 86 | 128 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 9 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 Ransom 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 1.35 | 39 min | 0.52 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 0.89 | 2.5 hrs | 0.83 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,772 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. Ransom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ransom 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/ransom-county