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2025 Towner County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Towner County, ND went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 1,628 customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2362nd 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 Towner 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 | February 28, 2025 11:00 | February 28, 2025 14:45 | 3h 45m | 367 | 1,085 |
| 2 | June 8, 2025 22:30 | June 8, 2025 23:00 | 30m | 348 | 174 |
| 3 | September 23, 2025 09:45 | September 23, 2025 10:15 | 30m | 339 | 170 |
| 4 | September 11, 2025 13:45 | September 11, 2025 19:45 | 6h | 22 | 92 |
| 5 | May 9, 2025 23:30 | May 10, 2025 02:00 | 2h 30m | 18 | 33 |
| 6 | April 6, 2025 20:30 | April 6, 2025 20:45 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 7 | February 15, 2025 22:30 | February 15, 2025 23:45 | 1h 15m | 8 | 10 |
| 8 | February 17, 2025 14:15 | February 17, 2025 16:30 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | August 8, 2025 15:15 | August 8, 2025 17:00 | 1h 45m | 6 | 11 |
| 10 | October 16, 2025 17:45 | October 16, 2025 18:45 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 3 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 Towner 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 Plains Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.90 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 755 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. Towner County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towner 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/towner-county