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2024 Stark County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Stark County, ND went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2726th 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 Stark 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 | February 8, 2024 20:45 | February 18, 2024 20:45 | 10d | 3,713 | 8,026 |
| 2 | March 3, 2024 19:30 | March 4, 2024 01:00 | 5h 30m | 2,283 | 1,734 |
| 3 | June 28, 2024 01:00 | June 28, 2024 04:00 | 3h | 2,054 | 2,924 |
| 4 | July 12, 2024 23:45 | July 13, 2024 01:45 | 2h | 1,838 | 1,866 |
| 5 | September 19, 2024 19:00 | September 19, 2024 20:45 | 1h 45m | 899 | 984 |
| 6 | July 25, 2024 22:30 | July 26, 2024 00:00 | 1h 30m | 802 | 617 |
| 7 | May 29, 2024 16:30 | May 29, 2024 17:15 | 45m | 536 | 402 |
| 8 | July 4, 2024 19:15 | July 4, 2024 21:00 | 1h 45m | 362 | 106 |
| 9 | August 22, 2024 06:00 | August 22, 2024 09:00 | 3h | 360 | 165 |
| 10 | July 12, 2024 20:30 | July 12, 2024 22:45 | 2h 15m | 284 | 241 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Stark 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,614 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. Stark County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stark 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/stark-county