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2023 Stutsman County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Stutsman County, ND went without power for an average of 60.6 hours, a total of 510K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 73rd 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 Stutsman 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 | June 7, 2023 22:45 | June 8, 2023 12:15 | 13h 30m | 9,808 | 19K |
| 2 | December 26, 2023 06:45 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 5d 17h | 9,685 | 447K |
| 3 | June 30, 2023 12:15 | June 30, 2023 17:45 | 5h 30m | 3,786 | 1,016 |
| 4 | June 24, 2023 09:00 | June 24, 2023 12:30 | 3h 30m | 3,781 | 9,659 |
| 5 | September 8, 2023 11:30 | September 8, 2023 14:15 | 2h 45m | 2,944 | 4,020 |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 20:00 | March 3, 2023 21:00 | 1h | 2,778 | 2,376 |
| 7 | January 26, 2023 22:45 | January 27, 2023 01:15 | 2h 30m | 1,488 | 2,246 |
| 8 | February 14, 2023 12:45 | February 14, 2023 17:00 | 4h 15m | 1,110 | 3,079 |
| 9 | July 30, 2023 13:15 | July 30, 2023 20:00 | 6h 45m | 1,004 | 2,098 |
| 10 | April 27, 2023 15:00 | April 27, 2023 21:45 | 6h 45m | 848 | 1,381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 31 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Stutsman 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.2 hrs | 2.14 | 6.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| 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 ÷ 8,427 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. Stutsman County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stutsman 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/stutsman-county