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2025 Barnes County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Barnes County, ND went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 476th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barnes County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 21, 2025 02:15 | June 26, 2025 19:45 | 5d 17h | 2,952 | 112K |
| 2 | August 8, 2025 08:00 | August 8, 2025 19:45 | 11h 45m | 630 | 2,584 |
| 3 | August 17, 2025 14:30 | August 17, 2025 16:15 | 1h 45m | 319 | 442 |
| 4 | May 14, 2025 15:45 | May 14, 2025 20:00 | 4h 15m | 301 | 102 |
| 5 | June 18, 2025 07:30 | June 18, 2025 10:30 | 3h | 252 | 329 |
| 6 | August 20, 2025 22:00 | August 21, 2025 01:45 | 3h 45m | 238 | 522 |
| 7 | July 4, 2025 20:30 | July 5, 2025 03:30 | 7h | 206 | 906 |
| 8 | July 28, 2025 19:15 | July 28, 2025 20:00 | 45m | 157 | 118 |
| 9 | August 27, 2025 16:00 | August 27, 2025 17:15 | 1h 15m | 157 | 196 |
| 10 | December 27, 2025 13:30 | December 27, 2025 16:00 | 2h 30m | 153 | 382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Barnes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Northern Plains Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 24 min | 0.39 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valley City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,694 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. Barnes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barnes County, ND annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/north-dakota/barnes-county