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2024 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2819th 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 Morton 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 | August 27, 2024 18:15 | August 27, 2024 21:15 | 3h | 1,419 | 1,114 |
| 2 | October 30, 2024 07:00 | October 30, 2024 11:30 | 4h 30m | 1,067 | 3,505 |
| 3 | April 23, 2024 05:00 | April 23, 2024 07:30 | 2h 30m | 488 | 1,220 |
| 4 | May 14, 2024 06:00 | May 14, 2024 06:15 | 15m | 460 | 115 |
| 5 | September 30, 2024 19:00 | September 30, 2024 20:15 | 1h 15m | 341 | 265 |
| 6 | January 14, 2024 02:45 | January 14, 2024 03:00 | 15m | 77 | 19 |
| 7 | October 15, 2024 21:00 | October 15, 2024 22:45 | 1h 45m | 60 | 104 |
| 8 | September 12, 2024 19:15 | September 12, 2024 21:00 | 1h 45m | 51 | 89 |
| 9 | April 22, 2024 16:00 | April 22, 2024 18:30 | 2h 30m | 27 | 68 |
| 10 | August 24, 2024 18:00 | August 24, 2024 18:30 | 30m | 26 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 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 Morton 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county