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2023 McLean County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McLean County, ND went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2267th 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 McLean 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 | January 18, 2023 22:00 | January 18, 2023 23:00 | 1h | 2,133 | 1,567 |
| 2 | January 20, 2023 12:15 | January 20, 2023 13:45 | 1h 30m | 1,188 | 1,263 |
| 3 | January 8, 2023 16:45 | January 9, 2023 00:15 | 7h 30m | 1,166 | 5,630 |
| 4 | January 23, 2023 07:15 | January 23, 2023 10:00 | 2h 45m | 856 | 1,727 |
| 5 | May 9, 2023 18:00 | May 9, 2023 23:00 | 5h | 608 | 1,540 |
| 6 | October 18, 2023 10:15 | October 18, 2023 12:00 | 1h 45m | 600 | 871 |
| 7 | July 24, 2023 11:45 | July 24, 2023 15:30 | 3h 45m | 550 | 152 |
| 8 | June 28, 2023 10:30 | June 28, 2023 12:15 | 1h 45m | 461 | 807 |
| 9 | January 19, 2023 22:30 | January 20, 2023 01:30 | 3h | 213 | 520 |
| 10 | November 7, 2023 17:30 | November 7, 2023 18:00 | 30m | 204 | 79 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 10 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 McLean 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.39 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Riverdale - (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 ÷ 7,334 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. McLean County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLean 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/mclean-county