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2024 Benson County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benson County, ND went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 5,183 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2271st 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 Benson 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 | October 5, 2024 23:15 | October 6, 2024 05:15 | 6h | 531 | 2,078 |
| 2 | March 4, 2024 01:00 | March 4, 2024 15:30 | 14h 30m | 312 | 539 |
| 3 | May 30, 2024 13:00 | May 30, 2024 17:15 | 4h 15m | 300 | 1,275 |
| 4 | May 29, 2024 19:00 | May 29, 2024 21:45 | 2h 45m | 164 | 407 |
| 5 | July 12, 2024 02:00 | July 12, 2024 03:00 | 1h | 57 | 55 |
| 6 | June 18, 2024 05:00 | June 18, 2024 09:00 | 4h | 56 | 113 |
| 7 | March 13, 2024 19:45 | March 13, 2024 20:30 | 45m | 47 | 35 |
| 8 | April 1, 2024 13:45 | April 1, 2024 15:30 | 1h 45m | 47 | 82 |
| 9 | September 13, 2024 17:45 | September 13, 2024 19:30 | 1h 45m | 46 | 81 |
| 10 | November 7, 2024 15:45 | November 7, 2024 22:00 | 6h 15m | 46 | 285 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 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 Benson 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maddock - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,086 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. Benson County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benson 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/benson-county