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2023 Bowman County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bowman County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 630 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2877th 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 Bowman County, 2023
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 27, 2023 01:15 | June 27, 2023 04:00 | 2h 45m | 129 | 349 |
| 2 | August 17, 2023 03:30 | August 17, 2023 11:00 | 7h 30m | 42 | 249 |
| 3 | August 17, 2023 22:30 | August 17, 2023 22:45 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 4 | April 10, 2023 19:00 | April 10, 2023 21:15 | 2h 15m | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | May 4, 2023 14:30 | May 4, 2023 16:00 | 1h 30m | 6 | 9 |
| 6 | June 19, 2023 17:15 | June 19, 2023 18:45 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
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 Bowman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Slope 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 n/a of North Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,623 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. Bowman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowman 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/bowman-county