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2025 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 505 customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2894th 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 Golden Valley County, 2025
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 14, 2025 06:30 | July 14, 2025 08:45 | 2h 15m | 95 | 214 |
| 2 | July 20, 2025 20:45 | July 21, 2025 01:15 | 4h 30m | 82 | 191 |
| 3 | December 18, 2025 08:30 | December 18, 2025 08:45 | 15m | 56 | 14 |
| 4 | December 18, 2025 03:30 | December 18, 2025 03:45 | 15m | 55 | 14 |
| 5 | September 18, 2025 17:00 | September 18, 2025 18:45 | 1h 45m | 17 | 30 |
| 6 | April 9, 2025 16:15 | April 9, 2025 17:45 | 1h 30m | 11 | 17 |
| 7 | September 24, 2025 15:00 | September 24, 2025 18:00 | 3h | 9 | 27 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 0 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 Golden Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.82 | 3.5 hrs | 1.61 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 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. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley 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/golden-valley-county