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2023 Divide County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Divide County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 243 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2868th 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 Divide 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 | January 18, 2023 13:00 | January 18, 2023 13:30 | 30m | 143 | 71 |
| 2 | August 31, 2023 06:15 | August 31, 2023 09:15 | 3h | 51 | 147 |
| 3 | January 20, 2023 06:30 | January 20, 2023 08:45 | 2h 15m | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | July 24, 2023 19:15 | July 24, 2023 19:30 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 5 | August 31, 2023 05:00 | August 31, 2023 05:15 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 6 | April 19, 2023 16:45 | April 19, 2023 17:00 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
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 Divide 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheridan 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 ÷ 893 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. Divide County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Divide 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/divide-county