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2023 Stark County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Stark County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2681st 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 Stark 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 | February 21, 2023 08:15 | February 21, 2023 22:15 | 14h | 3,869 | 8,202 |
| 2 | June 2, 2023 22:30 | June 4, 2023 17:15 | 1d 18h | 3,862 | 9,497 |
| 3 | October 17, 2023 23:00 | October 18, 2023 01:00 | 2h | 1,713 | 2,086 |
| 4 | October 18, 2023 06:00 | October 18, 2023 08:15 | 2h 15m | 290 | 516 |
| 5 | September 17, 2023 01:15 | September 17, 2023 01:45 | 30m | 231 | 116 |
| 6 | June 22, 2023 05:45 | June 22, 2023 17:15 | 11h 30m | 223 | 842 |
| 7 | February 9, 2023 08:15 | February 9, 2023 10:30 | 2h 15m | 163 | 304 |
| 8 | June 28, 2023 19:00 | June 28, 2023 21:45 | 2h 45m | 158 | 371 |
| 9 | July 30, 2023 15:45 | July 30, 2023 16:45 | 1h | 141 | 49 |
| 10 | June 28, 2023 02:00 | June 28, 2023 04:45 | 2h 45m | 123 | 233 |
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 Stark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,614 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. Stark County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stark 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/north-dakota/stark-county