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2023 Ramsey County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ramsey County, ND went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,748 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2532nd 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 Ramsey 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 | December 9, 2023 01:30 | December 9, 2023 04:45 | 3h 15m | 558 | 1,014 |
| 2 | June 12, 2023 15:15 | June 12, 2023 19:30 | 4h 15m | 393 | 725 |
| 3 | September 27, 2023 05:15 | September 27, 2023 10:45 | 5h 30m | 372 | 2,025 |
| 4 | January 7, 2023 10:00 | January 7, 2023 12:15 | 2h 15m | 163 | 286 |
| 5 | June 11, 2023 23:45 | June 12, 2023 00:00 | 15m | 110 | 28 |
| 6 | April 13, 2023 14:15 | April 13, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 103 | 61 |
| 7 | August 24, 2023 01:15 | August 24, 2023 04:00 | 2h 45m | 86 | 215 |
| 8 | September 7, 2023 14:45 | September 7, 2023 15:00 | 15m | 66 | 17 |
| 9 | January 22, 2023 22:15 | January 23, 2023 01:15 | 3h | 62 | 186 |
| 10 | November 6, 2023 15:00 | November 6, 2023 17:30 | 2h 30m | 60 | 150 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 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 Ramsey 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 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.2 hrs | 2.14 | 6.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cavalier Rural 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 ÷ 4,176 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. Ramsey County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ramsey 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/ramsey-county