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2024 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2681st 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 McKenzie 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 | September 27, 2024 06:00 | September 27, 2024 11:15 | 5h 15m | 536 | 2,796 |
| 2 | July 1, 2024 08:15 | July 8, 2024 05:15 | 6d 21h | 248 | 4,603 |
| 3 | August 29, 2024 03:00 | August 29, 2024 12:30 | 9h 30m | 186 | 1,618 |
| 4 | May 10, 2024 15:45 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 13d 8h | 83 | 4,323 |
| 5 | February 2, 2024 15:00 | February 2, 2024 19:30 | 4h 30m | 32 | 130 |
| 6 | May 26, 2024 18:30 | May 28, 2024 09:15 | 1d 14h | 32 | 386 |
| 7 | July 8, 2024 13:15 | July 11, 2024 09:15 | 2d 20h | 31 | 2,083 |
| 8 | May 31, 2024 06:30 | May 31, 2024 10:00 | 3h 30m | 27 | 95 |
| 9 | January 24, 2024 15:00 | January 24, 2024 19:00 | 4h | 22 | 80 |
| 10 | September 13, 2024 14:00 | September 13, 2024 18:00 | 4h | 17 | 58 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 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 McKenzie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county