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2023 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 22.4 hours, a total of 172K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 344th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2023
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 25, 2023 23:15 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 6d | 2,040 | 167K |
| 2 | February 16, 2023 00:30 | February 16, 2023 00:45 | 15m | 1,068 | 267 |
| 3 | June 7, 2023 22:45 | June 8, 2023 00:30 | 1h 45m | 509 | 431 |
| 4 | May 17, 2023 13:00 | May 17, 2023 13:30 | 30m | 281 | 104 |
| 5 | August 2, 2023 15:45 | August 2, 2023 16:45 | 1h | 267 | 68 |
| 6 | April 30, 2023 16:30 | April 30, 2023 21:00 | 4h 30m | 257 | 1,139 |
| 7 | April 29, 2023 21:30 | April 30, 2023 01:15 | 3h 45m | 244 | 804 |
| 8 | August 14, 2023 15:15 | August 14, 2023 17:30 | 2h 15m | 95 | 190 |
| 9 | August 24, 2023 13:30 | August 24, 2023 17:00 | 3h 30m | 81 | 210 |
| 10 | January 20, 2023 23:15 | January 21, 2023 00:30 | 1h 15m | 78 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.78 | 1.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.56 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.2 hrs | 2.14 | 6.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 7.3 hrs | 0.83 | 23 min | 0.45 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-dakota/barnes-county