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2024 Pierce County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pierce County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 1,531 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2734th 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 Pierce 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 | December 13, 2024 16:15 | December 13, 2024 17:00 | 45m | 253 | 190 |
| 2 | July 13, 2024 02:30 | July 13, 2024 05:45 | 3h 15m | 246 | 772 |
| 3 | October 5, 2024 23:30 | October 6, 2024 02:45 | 3h 15m | 35 | 114 |
| 4 | June 5, 2024 20:15 | June 6, 2024 02:45 | 6h 30m | 33 | 129 |
| 5 | September 25, 2024 17:30 | September 25, 2024 18:30 | 1h | 20 | 20 |
| 6 | June 19, 2024 14:00 | June 19, 2024 16:45 | 2h 45m | 19 | 52 |
| 7 | May 18, 2024 20:15 | May 18, 2024 22:00 | 1h 45m | 14 | 18 |
| 8 | May 7, 2024 18:30 | May 7, 2024 18:45 | 15m | 13 | 3 |
| 9 | May 16, 2024 17:45 | May 16, 2024 20:00 | 2h 15m | 12 | 27 |
| 10 | July 15, 2024 16:30 | July 15, 2024 17:00 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 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 Pierce 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 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec 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 ÷ 1,560 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. Pierce County has data for 2020, 2022–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pierce 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/pierce-county