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2025 Grand Forks County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Grand Forks County, ND went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2549th 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 Grand Forks 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 | July 27, 2025 07:15 | July 28, 2025 17:00 | 1d 9h | 2,997 | 25K |
| 2 | March 22, 2025 03:45 | March 22, 2025 05:30 | 1h 45m | 2,372 | 2,497 |
| 3 | June 21, 2025 04:15 | June 21, 2025 22:15 | 18h | 2,032 | 8,126 |
| 4 | August 8, 2025 09:15 | August 9, 2025 22:45 | 1d 13h | 1,601 | 8,654 |
| 5 | December 18, 2025 11:45 | December 18, 2025 14:00 | 2h 15m | 1,582 | 2,372 |
| 6 | June 11, 2025 16:00 | June 11, 2025 16:45 | 45m | 616 | 314 |
| 7 | August 6, 2025 10:00 | August 6, 2025 17:15 | 7h 15m | 603 | 1,365 |
| 8 | August 4, 2025 13:30 | August 4, 2025 15:15 | 1h 45m | 565 | 424 |
| 9 | August 13, 2025 09:45 | August 13, 2025 15:45 | 6h | 470 | 2,820 |
| 10 | May 14, 2025 10:30 | May 14, 2025 11:45 | 1h 15m | 409 | 465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 29 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Grand Forks 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Northwood - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,992 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. Grand Forks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand Forks 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/grand-forks-county