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2023 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2810th 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 Ward 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 | November 24, 2023 22:30 | November 25, 2023 03:30 | 5h | 3,422 | 5,449 |
| 2 | January 31, 2023 09:15 | January 31, 2023 17:30 | 8h 15m | 2,740 | 8,907 |
| 3 | August 16, 2023 16:15 | August 17, 2023 03:30 | 11h 15m | 867 | 1,183 |
| 4 | January 15, 2023 20:45 | January 16, 2023 01:45 | 5h | 622 | 1,326 |
| 5 | January 20, 2023 10:45 | January 20, 2023 15:15 | 4h 30m | 622 | 1,047 |
| 6 | November 7, 2023 17:30 | November 7, 2023 22:15 | 4h 45m | 271 | 314 |
| 7 | June 2, 2023 16:45 | June 3, 2023 05:30 | 12h 45m | 230 | 520 |
| 8 | September 13, 2023 13:30 | September 14, 2023 12:15 | 22h 45m | 211 | 882 |
| 9 | October 27, 2023 03:45 | October 27, 2023 05:00 | 1h 15m | 209 | 157 |
| 10 | August 11, 2023 02:45 | August 11, 2023 03:00 | 15m | 203 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ward 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.39 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county