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2023 Towner County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Towner County, ND went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 4,236 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1359th 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 Towner 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 24, 2023 11:30 | December 24, 2023 14:00 | 2h 30m | 389 | 882 |
| 2 | June 24, 2023 22:45 | June 24, 2023 23:30 | 45m | 328 | 198 |
| 3 | January 16, 2023 21:00 | January 16, 2023 22:45 | 1h 45m | 236 | 253 |
| 4 | January 20, 2023 19:45 | January 20, 2023 21:15 | 1h 30m | 236 | 354 |
| 5 | April 19, 2023 23:00 | April 20, 2023 01:00 | 2h | 236 | 413 |
| 6 | June 21, 2023 02:15 | June 21, 2023 09:15 | 7h | 234 | 1,638 |
| 7 | August 21, 2023 08:00 | August 21, 2023 09:45 | 1h 45m | 153 | 268 |
| 8 | January 1, 2023 23:30 | January 2, 2023 01:15 | 1h 45m | 32 | 51 |
| 9 | July 3, 2023 14:30 | July 3, 2023 16:30 | 2h | 19 | 38 |
| 10 | August 4, 2023 19:30 | August 4, 2023 19:45 | 15m | 19 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 Towner 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 |
| 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 ÷ 755 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. Towner County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towner 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/towner-county