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2023 Benson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benson County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 1,226 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2798th 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 Benson 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 | April 28, 2023 06:15 | April 28, 2023 08:30 | 2h 15m | 430 | 715 |
| 2 | March 14, 2023 11:30 | March 14, 2023 14:00 | 2h 30m | 51 | 45 |
| 3 | June 23, 2023 14:15 | June 23, 2023 16:00 | 1h 45m | 48 | 83 |
| 4 | June 9, 2023 02:15 | June 9, 2023 04:30 | 2h 15m | 40 | 39 |
| 5 | June 1, 2023 15:00 | June 1, 2023 15:15 | 15m | 33 | 8 |
| 6 | February 16, 2023 18:00 | February 16, 2023 19:30 | 1h 30m | 27 | 41 |
| 7 | March 1, 2023 17:00 | March 1, 2023 17:45 | 45m | 23 | 17 |
| 8 | April 14, 2023 13:30 | April 14, 2023 19:45 | 6h 15m | 13 | 31 |
| 9 | November 1, 2023 14:15 | November 1, 2023 16:15 | 2h | 12 | 24 |
| 10 | February 15, 2023 18:15 | February 15, 2023 20:30 | 2h 15m | 9 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Benson 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maddock - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,086 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. Benson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benson 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/benson-county