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2024 Ransom County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ransom County, ND went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 9,655 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1977th 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 Ransom 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 | June 24, 2024 14:00 | June 24, 2024 16:45 | 2h 45m | 690 | 849 |
| 2 | February 18, 2024 19:45 | February 18, 2024 20:00 | 15m | 297 | 74 |
| 3 | January 10, 2024 22:00 | January 31, 2024 22:30 | 21d | 276 | 1,026 |
| 4 | April 7, 2024 17:45 | April 7, 2024 18:45 | 1h | 139 | 70 |
| 5 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | January 5, 2024 23:30 | 4d 23h | 127 | 4,649 |
| 6 | October 31, 2024 20:30 | November 1, 2024 13:00 | 16h 30m | 104 | 357 |
| 7 | November 12, 2024 15:45 | November 12, 2024 17:00 | 1h 15m | 103 | 27 |
| 8 | February 5, 2024 14:15 | February 5, 2024 17:45 | 3h 30m | 93 | 326 |
| 9 | March 14, 2024 13:00 | March 14, 2024 16:45 | 3h 45m | 93 | 349 |
| 10 | November 13, 2024 16:30 | November 13, 2024 18:00 | 1h 30m | 85 | 44 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 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 Ransom 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 24 min | 0.39 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.70 | 3.1 hrs | 1.62 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,772 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. Ransom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ransom 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/ransom-county