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2022 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1352nd 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 Richland 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 | June 20, 2022 23:30 | June 21, 2022 15:15 | 15h 45m | 1,321 | 9,441 |
| 2 | April 5, 2022 09:15 | April 5, 2022 12:45 | 3h 30m | 626 | 697 |
| 3 | May 29, 2022 06:30 | May 31, 2022 12:15 | 2d 5h | 538 | 2,301 |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 17:15 | September 30, 2022 20:15 | 3h | 466 | 198 |
| 5 | October 4, 2022 21:00 | October 4, 2022 21:15 | 15m | 447 | 112 |
| 6 | May 20, 2022 00:00 | May 20, 2022 00:15 | 15m | 446 | 112 |
| 7 | November 10, 2022 06:30 | November 12, 2022 15:30 | 2d 9h | 318 | 2,508 |
| 8 | July 15, 2022 14:15 | July 15, 2022 15:45 | 1h 30m | 314 | 471 |
| 9 | December 15, 2022 08:45 | December 16, 2022 17:45 | 1d 9h | 297 | 1,112 |
| 10 | November 14, 2022 16:15 | November 14, 2022 17:30 | 1h 15m | 268 | 202 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richland 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county