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2024 Wells County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wells County, ND went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 8,699 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1423rd 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 Wells 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 1, 2024 19:00 | April 1, 2024 19:45 | 45m | 1,568 | 1,176 |
| 2 | October 5, 2024 21:15 | October 6, 2024 05:30 | 8h 15m | 1,389 | 4,990 |
| 3 | April 26, 2024 21:15 | April 26, 2024 23:15 | 2h | 347 | 610 |
| 4 | April 7, 2024 23:00 | April 8, 2024 00:45 | 1h 45m | 301 | 414 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 24, 2024 18:15 | 9h | 115 | 865 |
| 6 | May 17, 2024 21:30 | May 17, 2024 22:00 | 30m | 74 | 37 |
| 7 | May 1, 2024 20:00 | May 1, 2024 21:15 | 1h 15m | 65 | 81 |
| 8 | March 16, 2024 06:30 | March 16, 2024 07:00 | 30m | 62 | 31 |
| 9 | December 4, 2024 13:00 | December 4, 2024 15:15 | 2h 15m | 58 | 102 |
| 10 | August 5, 2024 06:30 | August 5, 2024 16:45 | 10h 15m | 29 | 227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Wells 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| 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 ÷ 1,448 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. Wells County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county