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2024 Towner County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Towner County, ND went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 3,181 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1790th 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 Towner 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 18:00 | February 8, 2024 21:45 | 3h 45m | 326 | 698 |
| 2 | March 2, 2024 17:30 | March 2, 2024 19:30 | 2h | 324 | 484 |
| 3 | October 5, 2024 20:00 | October 6, 2024 00:45 | 4h 45m | 278 | 703 |
| 4 | February 3, 2024 14:00 | February 3, 2024 14:30 | 30m | 231 | 116 |
| 5 | February 9, 2024 12:45 | February 9, 2024 15:15 | 2h 30m | 231 | 578 |
| 6 | November 26, 2024 13:15 | November 26, 2024 16:15 | 3h | 171 | 266 |
| 7 | November 27, 2024 12:15 | November 27, 2024 14:15 | 2h | 74 | 94 |
| 8 | August 15, 2024 06:45 | August 15, 2024 12:00 | 5h 15m | 21 | 87 |
| 9 | September 2, 2024 20:30 | September 3, 2024 00:30 | 4h | 20 | 41 |
| 10 | May 24, 2024 18:30 | May 24, 2024 21:30 | 3h | 11 | 26 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 6 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 Towner 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 |
| 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 ÷ 755 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. Towner County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towner 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/towner-county