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2025 Richland County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Richland County, ND went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 1110th 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 Richland 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 18, 2025 20:00 | June 19, 2025 12:00 | 16h | 4,237 | 2,389 |
| 2 | November 25, 2025 06:45 | November 26, 2025 22:00 | 1d 15h | 1,430 | 18K |
| 3 | June 20, 2025 02:15 | June 20, 2025 10:30 | 8h 15m | 745 | 1,494 |
| 4 | August 9, 2025 19:30 | August 9, 2025 20:45 | 1h 15m | 709 | 886 |
| 5 | June 24, 2025 15:00 | June 24, 2025 16:15 | 1h 15m | 426 | 154 |
| 6 | August 19, 2025 18:45 | August 19, 2025 19:15 | 30m | 425 | 213 |
| 7 | April 23, 2025 05:00 | April 23, 2025 13:00 | 8h | 405 | 620 |
| 8 | May 8, 2025 15:00 | May 8, 2025 17:00 | 2h | 390 | 779 |
| 9 | August 14, 2025 16:30 | August 14, 2025 23:00 | 6h 30m | 285 | 347 |
| 10 | July 23, 2025 12:00 | July 23, 2025 13:30 | 1h 30m | 278 | 131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Richland 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 |
| Cass County Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 24 min | 0.39 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.70 | 3.1 hrs | 1.62 |
| Traverse 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 ÷ 5,021 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county