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2023 Bottineau County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bottineau County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 970 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2892nd 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 Bottineau 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 | May 3, 2023 07:00 | May 3, 2023 08:45 | 1h 45m | 218 | 382 |
| 2 | October 20, 2023 18:15 | October 20, 2023 20:00 | 1h 45m | 78 | 137 |
| 3 | February 15, 2023 18:15 | February 15, 2023 20:30 | 2h 15m | 56 | 70 |
| 4 | July 12, 2023 16:15 | July 12, 2023 19:00 | 2h 45m | 41 | 87 |
| 5 | April 29, 2023 13:00 | April 29, 2023 15:15 | 2h 15m | 34 | 48 |
| 6 | August 1, 2023 00:15 | August 1, 2023 01:30 | 1h 15m | 25 | 31 |
| 7 | August 11, 2023 15:30 | August 11, 2023 16:30 | 1h | 25 | 25 |
| 8 | July 19, 2023 18:00 | July 19, 2023 19:30 | 1h 30m | 16 | 24 |
| 9 | April 18, 2023 17:30 | April 18, 2023 19:15 | 1h 45m | 14 | 25 |
| 10 | July 21, 2023 15:15 | July 21, 2023 17:30 | 2h 15m | 12 | 27 |
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 Bottineau 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec 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 n/a of North Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,131 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. Bottineau County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bottineau 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/bottineau-county