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2023 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1170th 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 Richland 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 | April 26, 2023 18:00 | April 26, 2023 18:15 | 15m | 1,045 | 261 |
| 2 | December 25, 2023 19:45 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 6d 4h | 925 | 19K |
| 3 | March 31, 2023 11:45 | March 31, 2023 14:45 | 3h | 630 | 1,390 |
| 4 | July 12, 2023 17:15 | July 13, 2023 12:00 | 18h 45m | 585 | 852 |
| 5 | May 27, 2023 20:00 | May 30, 2023 13:00 | 2d 17h | 545 | 1,296 |
| 6 | June 1, 2023 16:15 | June 1, 2023 17:45 | 1h 30m | 440 | 117 |
| 7 | October 4, 2023 19:00 | October 4, 2023 21:30 | 2h 30m | 397 | 182 |
| 8 | November 3, 2023 17:30 | November 3, 2023 19:00 | 1h 30m | 342 | 402 |
| 9 | August 11, 2023 20:45 | August 11, 2023 21:30 | 45m | 332 | 198 |
| 10 | August 19, 2023 00:30 | August 20, 2023 03:15 | 1d 2h | 314 | 3,049 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 16 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 Richland 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county