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2023 Pierce County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pierce County, ND went without power for an average of 21.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 368th 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 Pierce 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 | June 22, 2023 09:45 | June 22, 2023 16:45 | 7h | 1,341 | 3,018 |
| 2 | July 12, 2023 16:30 | July 12, 2023 19:00 | 2h 30m | 1,158 | 300 |
| 3 | December 26, 2023 20:00 | December 28, 2023 21:30 | 2d 1h | 589 | 29K |
| 4 | February 15, 2023 18:00 | February 15, 2023 20:30 | 2h 30m | 579 | 728 |
| 5 | October 17, 2023 23:45 | October 18, 2023 00:45 | 1h | 402 | 204 |
| 6 | May 13, 2023 14:45 | May 13, 2023 16:15 | 1h 30m | 178 | 147 |
| 7 | June 10, 2023 22:45 | June 10, 2023 23:45 | 1h | 77 | 77 |
| 8 | January 20, 2023 18:30 | January 20, 2023 20:00 | 1h 30m | 43 | 55 |
| 9 | June 2, 2023 23:45 | June 3, 2023 02:30 | 2h 45m | 14 | 39 |
| 10 | June 21, 2023 13:30 | June 21, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 13 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Pierce 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec 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 ÷ 1,560 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. Pierce County has data for 2020, 2022–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pierce 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/pierce-county