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2024 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,775 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2614th 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 Golden Valley County, 2024
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2024 21:00 | March 3, 2024 21:30 | 30m | 653 | 326 |
| 2 | June 12, 2024 18:15 | June 12, 2024 21:00 | 2h 45m | 631 | 1,059 |
| 3 | March 3, 2024 23:00 | March 3, 2024 23:15 | 15m | 98 | 25 |
| 4 | August 17, 2024 08:45 | August 17, 2024 12:00 | 3h 15m | 93 | 302 |
| 5 | June 19, 2024 16:45 | June 19, 2024 18:15 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
| 6 | November 4, 2024 20:15 | November 4, 2024 22:00 | 1h 45m | 7 | 12 |
| 7 | January 14, 2024 02:45 | January 14, 2024 09:00 | 6h 15m | 6 | 38 |
| 8 | June 24, 2024 06:00 | June 24, 2024 06:15 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 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 Golden Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.82 | 3.5 hrs | 1.61 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 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. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley 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/golden-valley-county