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2024 Bottineau County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bottineau County, ND went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,139 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2658th 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 Bottineau 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 | May 1, 2024 17:00 | May 1, 2024 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1,234 | 1,350 |
| 2 | September 19, 2024 18:45 | September 19, 2024 20:15 | 1h 30m | 664 | 996 |
| 3 | April 3, 2024 18:45 | April 3, 2024 19:30 | 45m | 431 | 323 |
| 4 | September 18, 2024 10:30 | September 18, 2024 11:30 | 1h | 333 | 333 |
| 5 | April 11, 2024 10:45 | April 11, 2024 12:45 | 2h | 252 | 461 |
| 6 | April 22, 2024 21:00 | April 22, 2024 21:30 | 30m | 252 | 109 |
| 7 | May 14, 2024 12:00 | May 14, 2024 13:15 | 1h 15m | 252 | 315 |
| 8 | April 18, 2024 02:45 | April 18, 2024 04:00 | 1h 15m | 251 | 269 |
| 9 | October 5, 2024 17:30 | October 6, 2024 04:00 | 10h 30m | 198 | 904 |
| 10 | June 5, 2024 19:45 | June 6, 2024 03:00 | 7h 15m | 157 | 649 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Bottineau 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| North Central Elec 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,131 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. Bottineau County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bottineau 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/bottineau-county