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2023 Pembina County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pembina County, ND went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1516th 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 Pembina 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 | October 18, 2023 20:15 | October 18, 2023 21:00 | 45m | 754 | 356 |
| 2 | February 6, 2023 22:45 | February 7, 2023 00:45 | 2h | 516 | 905 |
| 3 | February 15, 2023 00:45 | February 15, 2023 03:30 | 2h 45m | 501 | 1,363 |
| 4 | May 2, 2023 17:00 | May 2, 2023 18:15 | 1h 15m | 501 | 626 |
| 5 | March 19, 2023 22:30 | March 20, 2023 12:00 | 13h 30m | 500 | 6,417 |
| 6 | August 3, 2023 17:15 | August 3, 2023 17:45 | 30m | 438 | 119 |
| 7 | May 21, 2023 19:30 | May 21, 2023 19:45 | 15m | 418 | 105 |
| 8 | June 1, 2023 13:30 | June 1, 2023 17:15 | 3h 45m | 237 | 889 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 17:30 | July 18, 2023 19:45 | 2h 15m | 160 | 360 |
| 10 | January 17, 2023 15:15 | January 17, 2023 21:30 | 6h 15m | 50 | 298 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 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 Pembina 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 |
| City of Cavalier - (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 ÷ 2,474 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. Pembina County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pembina 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/pembina-county