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2023 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 3,279 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2883rd 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 McKenzie 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 | July 1, 2023 04:00 | July 1, 2023 07:30 | 3h 30m | 528 | 1,706 |
| 2 | May 27, 2023 08:15 | May 27, 2023 08:30 | 15m | 107 | 27 |
| 3 | September 24, 2023 22:15 | September 25, 2023 00:45 | 2h 30m | 42 | 38 |
| 4 | January 6, 2023 16:30 | January 6, 2023 18:30 | 2h | 36 | 64 |
| 5 | September 27, 2023 14:00 | October 2, 2023 17:15 | 5d 3h | 35 | 858 |
| 6 | August 22, 2023 17:30 | August 23, 2023 05:15 | 11h 45m | 28 | 91 |
| 7 | August 31, 2023 01:00 | August 31, 2023 01:15 | 15m | 26 | 7 |
| 8 | July 20, 2023 15:45 | July 20, 2023 16:45 | 1h | 23 | 16 |
| 9 | October 18, 2023 15:15 | October 19, 2023 00:30 | 9h 15m | 22 | 83 |
| 10 | November 21, 2023 15:00 | November 21, 2023 18:45 | 3h 45m | 18 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 McKenzie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county