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2025 Steele County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Steele County, ND went without power for an average of 28.3 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 204th 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 Steele 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 04:45 | June 25, 2025 04:15 | 3d 23h | 165 | 15K |
| 2 | March 7, 2025 15:30 | March 7, 2025 17:45 | 2h 15m | 126 | 284 |
| 3 | August 27, 2025 12:45 | August 27, 2025 14:15 | 1h 30m | 124 | 186 |
| 4 | May 28, 2025 03:45 | May 28, 2025 04:30 | 45m | 120 | 90 |
| 5 | August 8, 2025 10:15 | August 8, 2025 11:30 | 1h 15m | 74 | 62 |
| 6 | September 10, 2025 15:15 | September 10, 2025 17:30 | 2h 15m | 60 | 135 |
| 7 | February 5, 2025 22:15 | February 5, 2025 23:15 | 1h | 54 | 54 |
| 8 | July 21, 2025 14:15 | July 21, 2025 17:00 | 2h 45m | 29 | 75 |
| 9 | December 18, 2025 16:00 | December 18, 2025 17:00 | 1h | 18 | 10 |
| 10 | October 8, 2025 20:30 | October 8, 2025 21:00 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 4 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 Steele 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 |
| Nodak Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hope - (ND) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sharon- (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 ÷ 557 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. Steele County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Steele 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/steele-county