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2025 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2695th 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 Morton 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 01:45 | June 21, 2025 14:15 | 12h 30m | 2,690 | 15K |
| 2 | June 11, 2025 15:00 | June 11, 2025 16:00 | 1h | 783 | 590 |
| 3 | March 25, 2025 19:00 | April 6, 2025 18:30 | 11d 23h | 466 | 5,791 |
| 4 | April 7, 2025 00:00 | April 7, 2025 03:00 | 3h | 161 | 457 |
| 5 | July 3, 2025 14:00 | July 3, 2025 14:45 | 45m | 115 | 86 |
| 6 | September 4, 2025 19:15 | September 4, 2025 23:15 | 4h | 108 | 287 |
| 7 | April 17, 2025 14:15 | April 17, 2025 19:30 | 5h 15m | 48 | 240 |
| 8 | August 18, 2025 15:30 | August 18, 2025 17:30 | 2h | 41 | 82 |
| 9 | March 14, 2025 20:45 | March 14, 2025 21:00 | 15m | 32 | 8 |
| 10 | April 12, 2025 20:15 | April 12, 2025 20:30 | 15m | 28 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 6 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 Morton 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou 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 ÷ 19,085 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county