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2023 Ransom County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ransom County, ND went without power for an average of 39.8 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 154th 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 Ransom 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 25, 2023 21:00 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 6d 3h | 2,462 | 102K |
| 2 | July 4, 2023 21:00 | July 4, 2023 22:00 | 1h | 1,286 | 1,286 |
| 3 | October 6, 2023 08:15 | October 6, 2023 11:00 | 2h 45m | 1,273 | 3,501 |
| 4 | November 23, 2023 23:30 | November 23, 2023 23:45 | 15m | 697 | 174 |
| 5 | July 27, 2023 04:45 | July 27, 2023 05:15 | 30m | 650 | 166 |
| 6 | March 15, 2023 15:30 | March 15, 2023 15:45 | 15m | 575 | 144 |
| 7 | January 1, 2023 20:30 | January 1, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 396 | 99 |
| 8 | June 7, 2023 23:30 | June 8, 2023 00:15 | 45m | 392 | 210 |
| 9 | November 15, 2023 14:45 | November 15, 2023 21:00 | 6h 15m | 253 | 73 |
| 10 | May 19, 2023 12:30 | May 19, 2023 13:45 | 1h 15m | 103 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 11 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 Ransom 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 7.3 hrs | 0.83 | 23 min | 0.45 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 39.0 hrs | 2.73 | 2.6 hrs | 1.45 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,772 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. Ransom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ransom 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/ransom-county