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2024 Sargent County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Sargent County, ND went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1179th 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 Sargent 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 | April 21, 2024 12:15 | April 21, 2024 13:00 | 45m | 530 | 393 |
| 2 | September 3, 2024 08:00 | September 3, 2024 11:15 | 3h 15m | 527 | 1,398 |
| 3 | January 14, 2024 14:00 | January 14, 2024 15:00 | 1h | 462 | 325 |
| 4 | April 15, 2024 13:45 | April 15, 2024 15:45 | 2h | 393 | 744 |
| 5 | June 5, 2024 11:30 | June 5, 2024 14:00 | 2h 30m | 295 | 736 |
| 6 | September 5, 2024 10:00 | September 5, 2024 12:30 | 2h 30m | 291 | 728 |
| 7 | September 21, 2024 14:30 | September 23, 2024 11:45 | 1d 21h | 271 | 1,602 |
| 8 | April 7, 2024 08:45 | April 7, 2024 09:15 | 30m | 190 | 95 |
| 9 | January 26, 2024 00:30 | January 26, 2024 14:15 | 13h 45m | 181 | 211 |
| 10 | August 5, 2024 23:45 | August 6, 2024 12:00 | 12h 15m | 181 | 179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 15 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 Sargent 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 Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 50 min | 0.67 | 50 min | 0.67 |
| 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 ÷ 1,900 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. Sargent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sargent 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/sargent-county