County annual report · FIPS 38057
2024 Mercer County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mercer County, ND went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 248 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2949th 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 Mercer County, 2024
The 7 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 19:00 | March 3, 2024 22:00 | 3h | 43 | 97 |
| 2 | July 5, 2024 22:00 | July 6, 2024 01:15 | 3h 15m | 23 | 71 |
| 3 | December 30, 2024 01:30 | December 30, 2024 03:00 | 1h 30m | 13 | 18 |
| 4 | September 26, 2024 06:00 | September 26, 2024 07:00 | 1h | 11 | 11 |
| 5 | March 19, 2024 08:45 | March 19, 2024 15:15 | 6h 30m | 6 | 32 |
| 6 | August 2, 2024 06:45 | August 2, 2024 09:00 | 2h 15m | 6 | 14 |
| 7 | July 30, 2024 23:15 | July 31, 2024 00:30 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 0 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 Mercer 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Basin Electric Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stanton - (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 ÷ 6,015 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. Mercer County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county