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2024 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1369th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | January 5, 2024 23:45 | 4d 23h | 727 | 41K |
| 2 | January 11, 2024 21:00 | January 11, 2024 22:30 | 1h 30m | 543 | 138 |
| 3 | July 31, 2024 14:15 | July 31, 2024 19:45 | 5h 30m | 332 | 396 |
| 4 | April 18, 2024 12:45 | April 18, 2024 13:00 | 15m | 285 | 71 |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 00:30 | January 12, 2024 00:45 | 15m | 284 | 71 |
| 6 | October 27, 2024 23:30 | October 28, 2024 00:45 | 1h 15m | 249 | 82 |
| 7 | October 15, 2024 01:00 | October 15, 2024 04:45 | 3h 45m | 240 | 841 |
| 8 | April 26, 2024 00:15 | April 26, 2024 04:45 | 4h 30m | 199 | 630 |
| 9 | April 8, 2024 21:00 | April 8, 2024 21:45 | 45m | 184 | 138 |
| 10 | June 3, 2024 00:15 | June 3, 2024 05:45 | 5h 30m | 141 | 222 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 12 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 24 min | 0.39 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/north-dakota/barnes-county