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2023 Burke County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Burke County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,486 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2570th 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 Burke 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 | March 5, 2023 18:00 | March 5, 2023 20:00 | 2h | 236 | 188 |
| 2 | January 21, 2023 20:15 | January 21, 2023 22:00 | 1h 45m | 233 | 252 |
| 3 | January 23, 2023 00:45 | January 23, 2023 02:00 | 1h 15m | 233 | 66 |
| 4 | January 20, 2023 14:00 | January 20, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 198 | 50 |
| 5 | April 19, 2023 10:45 | April 19, 2023 18:45 | 8h | 168 | 726 |
| 6 | January 18, 2023 13:00 | January 18, 2023 13:15 | 15m | 152 | 38 |
| 7 | January 20, 2023 07:45 | January 20, 2023 08:15 | 30m | 75 | 20 |
| 8 | July 8, 2023 20:45 | July 8, 2023 23:30 | 2h 45m | 29 | 36 |
| 9 | July 23, 2023 07:15 | July 23, 2023 10:00 | 2h 45m | 29 | 47 |
| 10 | January 22, 2023 22:15 | January 22, 2023 22:45 | 30m | 28 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 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 Burke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.39 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide 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 ÷ 1,180 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. Burke County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/burke-county