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2024 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1858th 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 Richland 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 | July 31, 2024 17:45 | August 1, 2024 17:00 | 23h 15m | 1,015 | 2,854 |
| 2 | September 15, 2024 20:15 | September 16, 2024 12:00 | 15h 45m | 434 | 1,881 |
| 3 | May 15, 2024 06:30 | May 15, 2024 14:15 | 7h 45m | 362 | 1,494 |
| 4 | July 21, 2024 22:15 | July 22, 2024 12:00 | 13h 45m | 361 | 318 |
| 5 | January 26, 2024 22:30 | January 27, 2024 00:00 | 1h 30m | 296 | 438 |
| 6 | November 29, 2024 16:00 | November 29, 2024 19:00 | 3h | 293 | 879 |
| 7 | May 19, 2024 18:45 | May 20, 2024 12:00 | 17h 15m | 269 | 946 |
| 8 | November 18, 2024 11:45 | November 18, 2024 12:00 | 15m | 269 | 67 |
| 9 | May 20, 2024 16:15 | May 20, 2024 17:45 | 1h 30m | 245 | 128 |
| 10 | April 24, 2024 08:45 | April 24, 2024 12:15 | 3h 30m | 228 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 20 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richland 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 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| 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 |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county