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2022 Wells County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wells County, ND went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 8,736 customer-hours (North Dakota average 2.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1198th 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 Wells 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 29, 2022 13:15 | December 29, 2022 17:45 | 4h 30m | 1,453 | 3,909 |
| 2 | June 14, 2022 10:00 | June 14, 2022 16:15 | 6h 15m | 150 | 112 |
| 3 | March 9, 2022 19:15 | March 9, 2022 20:15 | 1h | 146 | 146 |
| 4 | November 1, 2022 13:00 | November 1, 2022 14:45 | 1h 45m | 139 | 243 |
| 5 | April 24, 2022 13:30 | April 24, 2022 13:45 | 15m | 89 | 22 |
| 6 | June 21, 2022 17:45 | June 23, 2022 16:15 | 1d 22h | 89 | 4,139 |
| 7 | December 22, 2022 16:00 | December 22, 2022 17:15 | 1h 15m | 86 | 108 |
| 8 | December 30, 2022 00:30 | December 30, 2022 02:00 | 1h 30m | 20 | 30 |
| 9 | June 20, 2022 17:00 | June 20, 2022 22:30 | 5h 30m | 4 | 22 |
| 10 | December 24, 2022 00:00 | December 24, 2022 00:30 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 4 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 Wells 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 7.4 hrs | 0.77 | 42 min | 0.56 |
| 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 ÷ 1,448 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. Wells County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county