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2023 Traill County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Traill County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 2,537 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2792nd 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 Traill 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 | August 19, 2023 15:30 | August 19, 2023 16:15 | 45m | 392 | 294 |
| 2 | July 24, 2023 13:00 | July 24, 2023 18:00 | 5h | 102 | 345 |
| 3 | October 6, 2023 15:15 | October 6, 2023 16:45 | 1h 30m | 84 | 74 |
| 4 | September 5, 2023 05:45 | September 5, 2023 11:30 | 5h 45m | 82 | 388 |
| 5 | October 8, 2023 15:45 | October 9, 2023 00:30 | 8h 45m | 51 | 294 |
| 6 | December 9, 2023 10:45 | December 9, 2023 22:00 | 11h 15m | 45 | 244 |
| 7 | April 20, 2023 14:15 | April 20, 2023 19:15 | 5h | 40 | 200 |
| 8 | June 24, 2023 19:45 | June 24, 2023 22:30 | 2h 45m | 40 | 83 |
| 9 | June 20, 2023 20:30 | June 20, 2023 23:30 | 3h | 30 | 56 |
| 10 | February 14, 2023 18:30 | February 14, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 21 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Traill 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.56 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 7.3 hrs | 0.83 | 23 min | 0.45 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hillsboro - (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 ÷ 4,104 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. Traill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Traill 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/traill-county