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2024 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2845th 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 Ward 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 | October 5, 2024 17:00 | October 7, 2024 00:45 | 1d 7h | 2,127 | 12K |
| 2 | July 25, 2024 21:45 | July 25, 2024 23:45 | 2h | 2,063 | 3,094 |
| 3 | January 26, 2024 10:30 | January 26, 2024 12:00 | 1h 30m | 1,254 | 959 |
| 4 | May 31, 2024 17:00 | May 31, 2024 18:30 | 1h 30m | 552 | 828 |
| 5 | June 16, 2024 05:45 | June 17, 2024 06:00 | 1d | 198 | 1,304 |
| 6 | November 4, 2024 02:00 | November 4, 2024 02:45 | 45m | 120 | 90 |
| 7 | June 16, 2024 04:30 | June 16, 2024 04:45 | 15m | 102 | 26 |
| 8 | June 2, 2024 12:45 | June 2, 2024 16:00 | 3h 15m | 97 | 164 |
| 9 | September 11, 2024 13:15 | September 11, 2024 15:00 | 1h 45m | 90 | 138 |
| 10 | April 6, 2024 21:00 | April 7, 2024 00:00 | 3h | 85 | 235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ward 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2024 | 4.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county