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2022 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2774th 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 Ward 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 | April 5, 2022 18:30 | April 6, 2022 01:45 | 7h 15m | 7,477 | 7,551 |
| 2 | October 16, 2022 08:00 | October 16, 2022 11:15 | 3h 15m | 2,707 | 3,710 |
| 3 | January 21, 2022 08:15 | January 21, 2022 08:30 | 15m | 2,059 | 515 |
| 4 | July 28, 2022 15:00 | July 28, 2022 17:00 | 2h | 1,563 | 795 |
| 5 | October 25, 2022 13:30 | October 25, 2022 15:00 | 1h 30m | 1,291 | 350 |
| 6 | September 29, 2022 18:15 | September 29, 2022 20:15 | 2h | 1,262 | 318 |
| 7 | April 24, 2022 12:30 | April 25, 2022 01:15 | 12h 45m | 1,182 | 6,749 |
| 8 | April 6, 2022 19:15 | April 7, 2022 02:00 | 6h 45m | 428 | 673 |
| 9 | July 25, 2022 08:30 | July 25, 2022 20:00 | 11h 30m | 282 | 905 |
| 10 | February 18, 2022 15:00 | February 18, 2022 15:15 | 15m | 234 | 59 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Ward 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 7.4 hrs | 0.77 | 42 min | 0.56 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2022 | 120.4 hrs | 2.84 | 2.0 hrs | 1.12 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county