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2024 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2885th 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 Grand Forks 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 18, 2024 01:45 | May 18, 2024 08:15 | 6h 30m | 1,254 | 2,225 |
| 2 | August 20, 2024 17:45 | August 20, 2024 21:00 | 3h 15m | 1,120 | 563 |
| 3 | June 25, 2024 17:00 | June 25, 2024 17:15 | 15m | 290 | 73 |
| 4 | April 11, 2024 15:30 | April 11, 2024 20:00 | 4h 30m | 248 | 436 |
| 5 | October 6, 2024 03:45 | October 6, 2024 21:45 | 18h | 219 | 543 |
| 6 | October 25, 2024 22:15 | October 26, 2024 00:30 | 2h 15m | 208 | 261 |
| 7 | May 2, 2024 14:45 | May 2, 2024 18:15 | 3h 30m | 203 | 711 |
| 8 | April 29, 2024 22:15 | April 29, 2024 23:45 | 1h 30m | 196 | 250 |
| 9 | October 18, 2024 13:45 | October 18, 2024 16:15 | 2h 30m | 175 | 302 |
| 10 | April 16, 2024 14:30 | April 16, 2024 18:15 | 3h 45m | 153 | 498 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 15 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county