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2025 Bottineau County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Bottineau County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 2,353 customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2883rd 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 Bottineau 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 | April 22, 2025 14:00 | April 22, 2025 16:45 | 2h 45m | 477 | 1,098 |
| 2 | September 15, 2025 15:00 | September 15, 2025 15:45 | 45m | 177 | 133 |
| 3 | February 3, 2025 06:45 | February 3, 2025 08:00 | 1h 15m | 147 | 184 |
| 4 | July 4, 2025 08:15 | July 4, 2025 08:30 | 15m | 98 | 25 |
| 5 | May 16, 2025 11:45 | May 16, 2025 15:45 | 4h | 91 | 342 |
| 6 | August 4, 2025 18:45 | August 4, 2025 20:15 | 1h 30m | 53 | 73 |
| 7 | October 28, 2025 13:45 | October 28, 2025 14:45 | 1h | 53 | 53 |
| 8 | October 31, 2025 15:30 | October 31, 2025 17:00 | 1h 30m | 26 | 38 |
| 9 | September 21, 2025 14:00 | September 21, 2025 15:00 | 1h | 21 | 21 |
| 10 | November 4, 2025 15:15 | November 4, 2025 16:00 | 45m | 20 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 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 Bottineau 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Elec 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,131 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. Bottineau County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bottineau 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/bottineau-county