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2022 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 36.3 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 130th 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 Sargent 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 | November 10, 2022 03:15 | November 17, 2022 20:30 | 7d 17h | 698 | 45K |
| 2 | April 6, 2022 20:30 | April 7, 2022 13:00 | 16h 30m | 585 | 2,325 |
| 3 | May 8, 2022 22:00 | May 9, 2022 13:30 | 15h 30m | 555 | 1,174 |
| 4 | April 23, 2022 03:45 | April 25, 2022 12:45 | 2d 9h | 441 | 4,583 |
| 5 | February 10, 2022 17:00 | February 11, 2022 01:30 | 8h 30m | 301 | 1,220 |
| 6 | April 5, 2022 09:15 | April 5, 2022 12:30 | 3h 15m | 210 | 351 |
| 7 | December 12, 2022 23:30 | December 14, 2022 20:30 | 1d 21h | 154 | 2,921 |
| 8 | June 19, 2022 17:30 | June 20, 2022 12:30 | 19h | 129 | 637 |
| 9 | November 6, 2022 15:00 | November 7, 2022 14:15 | 23h 15m | 92 | 849 |
| 10 | September 27, 2022 12:15 | September 27, 2022 15:45 | 3h 30m | 87 | 170 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 8 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 Sargent 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.1 hrs | 1.09 | 1.8 hrs | 0.77 |
| 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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county