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2024 Steele County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Steele County, ND went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 606 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2707th 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 Steele 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 12, 2024 02:00 | July 12, 2024 02:30 | 30m | 252 | 126 |
| 2 | October 18, 2024 17:15 | October 18, 2024 18:30 | 1h 15m | 110 | 138 |
| 3 | July 11, 2024 23:15 | July 11, 2024 23:30 | 15m | 105 | 26 |
| 4 | July 10, 2024 13:30 | July 10, 2024 15:00 | 1h 30m | 99 | 149 |
| 5 | June 28, 2024 05:30 | June 28, 2024 08:15 | 2h 45m | 56 | 149 |
| 6 | November 21, 2024 03:30 | November 21, 2024 05:00 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 7 | May 16, 2024 14:45 | May 16, 2024 15:45 | 1h | 6 | 5 |
| 8 | September 9, 2024 19:15 | September 9, 2024 19:30 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
| 9 | May 14, 2024 16:00 | May 14, 2024 16:15 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | January 2, 2024 18:45 | January 2, 2024 19:15 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 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 Steele 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hope - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sharon- (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 557 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county