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2023 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 8,018 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2838th 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 Morton 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 12, 2023 02:15 | July 12, 2023 05:15 | 3h | 1,642 | 3,639 |
| 2 | August 2, 2023 02:00 | August 2, 2023 05:15 | 3h 15m | 725 | 1,448 |
| 3 | March 24, 2023 13:30 | March 24, 2023 17:15 | 3h 45m | 465 | 710 |
| 4 | May 17, 2023 17:00 | May 17, 2023 17:15 | 15m | 419 | 105 |
| 5 | May 10, 2023 01:45 | May 10, 2023 03:15 | 1h 30m | 415 | 620 |
| 6 | October 29, 2023 10:30 | October 29, 2023 10:45 | 15m | 314 | 79 |
| 7 | July 25, 2023 04:30 | July 25, 2023 04:45 | 15m | 221 | 55 |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 00:00 | July 14, 2023 02:00 | 2h | 117 | 234 |
| 9 | September 13, 2023 02:00 | September 13, 2023 05:00 | 3h | 115 | 235 |
| 10 | January 23, 2023 05:15 | January 23, 2023 08:15 | 3h | 99 | 276 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/north-dakota/morton-county