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2024 Griggs County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Griggs County, ND went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 5,098 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1339th 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 Griggs 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 20:45 | October 6, 2024 03:15 | 6h 30m | 1,021 | 2,474 |
| 2 | March 3, 2024 21:15 | March 4, 2024 03:45 | 6h 30m | 465 | 1,366 |
| 3 | June 16, 2024 23:00 | June 17, 2024 02:15 | 3h 15m | 153 | 461 |
| 4 | September 12, 2024 21:30 | September 13, 2024 01:45 | 4h 15m | 117 | 468 |
| 5 | February 7, 2024 16:45 | February 7, 2024 20:15 | 3h 30m | 100 | 91 |
| 6 | June 12, 2024 18:15 | June 12, 2024 19:30 | 1h 15m | 75 | 52 |
| 7 | May 14, 2024 15:15 | May 14, 2024 15:45 | 30m | 49 | 25 |
| 8 | April 13, 2024 17:30 | April 13, 2024 20:15 | 2h 45m | 21 | 58 |
| 9 | April 1, 2024 13:15 | April 1, 2024 13:30 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
| 10 | August 12, 2024 16:00 | August 12, 2024 16:15 | 15m | 15 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 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 Griggs 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 786 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. Griggs County has data for 2016–2017, 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Griggs 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/griggs-county