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2025 McKenzie County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in McKenzie County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,667 customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2925th 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 McKenzie 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 28, 2025 08:45 | April 28, 2025 10:45 | 2h | 552 | 1,072 |
| 2 | June 8, 2025 22:45 | June 9, 2025 00:00 | 1h 15m | 98 | 122 |
| 3 | June 16, 2025 06:30 | June 22, 2025 21:15 | 6d 14h | 20 | 926 |
| 4 | December 19, 2025 00:00 | December 19, 2025 02:15 | 2h 15m | 18 | 41 |
| 5 | April 4, 2025 15:30 | April 4, 2025 19:00 | 3h 30m | 15 | 52 |
| 6 | April 8, 2025 14:15 | April 8, 2025 19:45 | 5h 30m | 15 | 58 |
| 7 | December 18, 2025 07:15 | December 18, 2025 12:30 | 5h 15m | 14 | 61 |
| 8 | July 12, 2025 23:45 | July 13, 2025 17:30 | 17h 45m | 13 | 184 |
| 9 | May 6, 2025 17:15 | May 6, 2025 20:15 | 3h | 11 | 33 |
| 10 | May 7, 2025 16:30 | May 7, 2025 17:15 | 45m | 11 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 1 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 McKenzie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 14,655 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. McKenzie County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKenzie 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/mckenzie-county