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2022 Towner County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Towner County, ND went without power for an average of 24.6 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 254th 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 Towner County, 2022
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 14, 2022 23:15 | April 15, 2022 00:15 | 1h | 501 | 501 |
| 2 | May 29, 2022 15:00 | May 29, 2022 17:00 | 2h | 501 | 1,002 |
| 3 | July 16, 2022 14:45 | July 16, 2022 16:30 | 1h 45m | 501 | 877 |
| 4 | November 8, 2022 15:15 | November 9, 2022 19:00 | 1d 3h | 501 | 14K |
| 5 | April 24, 2022 18:15 | April 24, 2022 19:30 | 1h 15m | 348 | 435 |
| 6 | December 30, 2022 22:30 | December 31, 2022 00:30 | 2h | 283 | 355 |
| 7 | December 24, 2022 12:30 | December 24, 2022 17:30 | 5h | 236 | 1,180 |
| 8 | December 26, 2022 17:15 | December 26, 2022 19:15 | 2h | 236 | 472 |
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 Towner 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 2.27 | 5.2 hrs | 2.18 |
| 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 ÷ 755 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. Towner County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towner 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/towner-county