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2023 Wells County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wells County, ND went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 9,526 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1203rd 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 Wells 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 | September 27, 2023 16:00 | September 27, 2023 20:15 | 4h 15m | 461 | 1,959 |
| 2 | August 10, 2023 06:30 | August 10, 2023 06:45 | 15m | 354 | 89 |
| 3 | January 4, 2023 10:15 | January 4, 2023 11:45 | 1h 30m | 303 | 252 |
| 4 | June 7, 2023 22:45 | June 8, 2023 00:15 | 1h 30m | 301 | 361 |
| 5 | December 27, 2023 16:15 | December 28, 2023 21:30 | 1d 5h | 188 | 5,048 |
| 6 | August 9, 2023 04:15 | August 9, 2023 07:15 | 3h | 129 | 355 |
| 7 | September 8, 2023 12:45 | September 8, 2023 13:45 | 1h | 128 | 128 |
| 8 | March 21, 2023 14:30 | March 21, 2023 21:30 | 7h | 125 | 494 |
| 9 | August 21, 2023 14:30 | August 21, 2023 15:45 | 1h 15m | 125 | 77 |
| 10 | January 18, 2023 22:00 | January 18, 2023 22:45 | 45m | 76 | 43 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 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 Wells 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 47 min | 0.63 | 47 min | 0.63 |
| 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 ÷ 1,448 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. Wells County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county