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2023 Steele County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Steele County, ND went without power for an average of 20.0 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 403rd 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 Steele 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 26, 2023 07:15 | December 26, 2023 20:45 | 13h 30m | 190 | 2,550 |
| 2 | December 30, 2023 11:30 | December 30, 2023 15:45 | 4h 15m | 190 | 763 |
| 3 | December 26, 2023 22:00 | December 28, 2023 21:30 | 1d 23h | 188 | 7,321 |
| 4 | December 15, 2023 15:15 | December 15, 2023 17:45 | 2h 30m | 128 | 320 |
| 5 | September 12, 2023 17:00 | September 12, 2023 18:15 | 1h 15m | 110 | 138 |
| 6 | January 20, 2023 07:15 | January 20, 2023 07:45 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
| 7 | July 6, 2023 19:15 | July 6, 2023 19:45 | 30m | 8 | 4 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 15:15 | July 13, 2023 18:30 | 3h 15m | 7 | 23 |
| 9 | January 9, 2023 09:30 | January 9, 2023 10:15 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
| 10 | May 13, 2023 13:30 | May 13, 2023 15:45 | 2h 15m | 4 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Steele 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hope - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sharon- (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 557 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county