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2023 Dickey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dickey County, ND went without power for an average of 24.1 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 314th 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 Dickey 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 26, 2023 00:30 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 5d 23h | 651 | 46K |
| 2 | July 12, 2023 04:45 | July 12, 2023 13:45 | 9h | 555 | 976 |
| 3 | September 5, 2023 08:15 | September 6, 2023 11:45 | 1d 3h | 555 | 2,709 |
| 4 | August 8, 2023 13:45 | August 9, 2023 12:45 | 23h | 279 | 1,295 |
| 5 | April 13, 2023 14:00 | April 13, 2023 15:45 | 1h 45m | 240 | 420 |
| 6 | June 11, 2023 05:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 7h | 160 | 704 |
| 7 | September 15, 2023 14:15 | September 15, 2023 16:15 | 2h | 142 | 49 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 05:15 | July 25, 2023 12:00 | 6h 45m | 129 | 243 |
| 9 | September 11, 2023 14:15 | September 11, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 122 | 37 |
| 10 | March 28, 2023 12:30 | March 28, 2023 15:15 | 2h 45m | 100 | 266 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 10 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 Dickey 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 74 min | 0.67 | 54 min | 0.55 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 7.3 hrs | 0.83 | 23 min | 0.45 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 39.0 hrs | 2.73 | 2.6 hrs | 1.45 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,595 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. Dickey County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickey 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/dickey-county