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2023 Griggs County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Griggs County, ND went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 1,464 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2343rd 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 Griggs 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 | November 16, 2023 20:45 | November 16, 2023 21:00 | 15m | 185 | 46 |
| 2 | September 8, 2023 21:45 | September 8, 2023 22:45 | 1h | 183 | 46 |
| 3 | February 21, 2023 20:15 | February 21, 2023 22:00 | 1h 45m | 158 | 273 |
| 4 | October 13, 2023 10:45 | October 13, 2023 11:15 | 30m | 156 | 78 |
| 5 | May 25, 2023 13:45 | May 25, 2023 18:30 | 4h 45m | 121 | 575 |
| 6 | July 14, 2023 14:00 | July 14, 2023 16:15 | 2h 15m | 64 | 144 |
| 7 | January 30, 2023 09:15 | January 30, 2023 11:00 | 1h 45m | 49 | 86 |
| 8 | August 6, 2023 13:30 | August 6, 2023 13:45 | 15m | 47 | 12 |
| 9 | December 28, 2023 19:15 | December 28, 2023 21:30 | 2h 15m | 46 | 104 |
| 10 | October 25, 2023 14:00 | October 25, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 27 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Griggs 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.56 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.2 hrs | 2.14 | 6.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 786 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. Griggs County has data for 2016–2017, 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Griggs 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/griggs-county