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2023 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2623rd 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 Grand Forks 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 | April 14, 2023 13:15 | April 14, 2023 19:45 | 6h 30m | 3,314 | 935 |
| 2 | September 5, 2023 05:45 | September 5, 2023 20:30 | 14h 45m | 2,373 | 8,671 |
| 3 | August 3, 2023 01:00 | August 3, 2023 04:00 | 3h | 1,646 | 1,236 |
| 4 | February 24, 2023 20:00 | February 24, 2023 21:30 | 1h 30m | 1,570 | 2,118 |
| 5 | October 23, 2023 21:15 | October 23, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 1,293 | 966 |
| 6 | May 31, 2023 21:45 | May 31, 2023 23:45 | 2h | 864 | 651 |
| 7 | March 16, 2023 05:30 | March 16, 2023 10:45 | 5h 15m | 779 | 3,520 |
| 8 | December 9, 2023 07:00 | December 10, 2023 04:30 | 21h 30m | 756 | 3,243 |
| 9 | December 27, 2023 11:00 | December 27, 2023 23:45 | 12h 45m | 714 | 3,444 |
| 10 | August 19, 2023 15:30 | August 20, 2023 01:00 | 9h 30m | 607 | 744 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Grand Forks 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.56 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county