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2023 Kidder County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kidder County, ND went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 3,720 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2111th 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 Kidder 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 13, 2023 22:30 | November 13, 2023 22:45 | 15m | 718 | 180 |
| 2 | August 26, 2023 04:30 | August 26, 2023 07:30 | 3h | 624 | 1,474 |
| 3 | July 26, 2023 23:30 | July 27, 2023 09:30 | 10h | 379 | 1,116 |
| 4 | June 16, 2023 21:30 | June 16, 2023 22:00 | 30m | 309 | 111 |
| 5 | April 12, 2023 18:45 | April 12, 2023 19:00 | 15m | 174 | 44 |
| 6 | January 20, 2023 12:30 | January 20, 2023 15:00 | 2h 30m | 112 | 280 |
| 7 | December 14, 2023 22:00 | December 14, 2023 23:45 | 1h 45m | 110 | 167 |
| 8 | January 18, 2023 22:00 | January 18, 2023 22:45 | 45m | 42 | 31 |
| 9 | December 26, 2023 14:45 | December 30, 2023 23:00 | 4d 8h | 42 | 250 |
| 10 | January 23, 2023 08:00 | January 23, 2023 10:00 | 2h | 41 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 Kidder 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.2 hrs | 2.14 | 6.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| KEM 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 ÷ 1,472 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. Kidder County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kidder 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/kidder-county