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2023 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 22.7 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 340th 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 Sargent 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 | July 4, 2023 21:00 | July 4, 2023 22:00 | 1h | 926 | 916 |
| 2 | April 18, 2023 15:45 | April 20, 2023 21:15 | 2d 5h | 668 | 1,664 |
| 3 | July 12, 2023 05:00 | July 12, 2023 06:45 | 1h 45m | 569 | 771 |
| 4 | July 12, 2023 09:15 | July 12, 2023 10:00 | 45m | 569 | 427 |
| 5 | October 29, 2023 13:00 | October 29, 2023 20:45 | 7h 45m | 568 | 613 |
| 6 | December 23, 2023 17:45 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 8d 6h | 476 | 32K |
| 7 | May 2, 2023 21:45 | May 3, 2023 00:30 | 2h 45m | 401 | 1,094 |
| 8 | May 19, 2023 16:00 | May 19, 2023 18:15 | 2h 15m | 396 | 598 |
| 9 | August 18, 2023 18:00 | August 18, 2023 18:45 | 45m | 347 | 177 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 03:00 | July 27, 2023 04:30 | 1h 30m | 240 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 12 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 Sargent 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 Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 74 min | 0.67 | 54 min | 0.55 |
| 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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county