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2025 Ward County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ward County, ND went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 2872nd 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 Ward 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 | December 28, 2025 19:30 | December 28, 2025 23:15 | 3h 45m | 2,806 | 5,948 |
| 2 | July 10, 2025 08:00 | July 11, 2025 06:30 | 22h 30m | 2,362 | 6,118 |
| 3 | May 13, 2025 00:15 | May 13, 2025 00:30 | 15m | 2,067 | 517 |
| 4 | April 12, 2025 08:45 | April 12, 2025 11:15 | 2h 30m | 1,704 | 2,226 |
| 5 | October 3, 2025 14:15 | October 3, 2025 15:15 | 1h | 556 | 556 |
| 6 | April 10, 2025 21:15 | April 10, 2025 22:15 | 1h | 426 | 426 |
| 7 | August 8, 2025 03:15 | August 8, 2025 15:15 | 12h | 352 | 2,640 |
| 8 | May 14, 2025 10:30 | May 14, 2025 14:00 | 3h 30m | 318 | 628 |
| 9 | July 27, 2025 10:15 | July 27, 2025 23:15 | 13h | 214 | 362 |
| 10 | November 1, 2025 22:00 | November 1, 2025 22:45 | 45m | 204 | 106 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Ward 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 States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | 2024 | 4.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean 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 ÷ 51,522 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. Ward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county