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2024 McLean County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McLean County, ND went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2496th 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 McLean 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 | March 14, 2024 12:45 | March 14, 2024 17:00 | 4h 15m | 908 | 3,859 |
| 2 | March 20, 2024 08:15 | March 20, 2024 11:15 | 3h | 908 | 2,724 |
| 3 | March 4, 2024 05:15 | March 4, 2024 07:00 | 1h 45m | 599 | 870 |
| 4 | October 5, 2024 20:30 | October 6, 2024 01:45 | 5h 15m | 536 | 2,120 |
| 5 | May 17, 2024 21:00 | May 17, 2024 22:15 | 1h 15m | 462 | 439 |
| 6 | April 30, 2024 21:45 | April 30, 2024 23:30 | 1h 45m | 369 | 646 |
| 7 | May 1, 2024 01:15 | May 1, 2024 03:30 | 2h 15m | 369 | 830 |
| 8 | February 9, 2024 10:00 | February 9, 2024 11:00 | 1h | 203 | 184 |
| 9 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 24, 2024 11:00 | 1h 45m | 177 | 310 |
| 10 | July 13, 2024 02:15 | July 13, 2024 02:30 | 15m | 101 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 10 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 McLean 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2024 | 4.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Capital Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Riverdale - (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 ÷ 7,334 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. McLean County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLean 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/mclean-county