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2025 Wells County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wells County, ND went without power for an average of 21.5 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (North Dakota average 3.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 52 North Dakota counties and 310th 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 Wells 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 | September 2, 2025 14:15 | September 3, 2025 05:30 | 15h 15m | 1,625 | 17K |
| 2 | August 2, 2025 05:15 | August 2, 2025 07:15 | 2h | 1,624 | 3,241 |
| 3 | June 21, 2025 03:00 | June 22, 2025 20:15 | 1d 17h | 816 | 6,769 |
| 4 | November 13, 2025 22:15 | November 13, 2025 23:15 | 1h | 460 | 453 |
| 5 | August 8, 2025 07:15 | August 8, 2025 13:45 | 6h 30m | 243 | 1,580 |
| 6 | August 28, 2025 14:45 | August 28, 2025 19:00 | 4h 15m | 120 | 318 |
| 7 | December 18, 2025 09:30 | December 18, 2025 14:15 | 4h 45m | 102 | 485 |
| 8 | October 23, 2025 14:00 | October 23, 2025 17:00 | 3h | 96 | 172 |
| 9 | December 12, 2025 19:30 | December 12, 2025 20:15 | 45m | 78 | 39 |
| 10 | April 14, 2025 12:30 | April 14, 2025 12:45 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 7 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 Wells 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 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 37 min | 0.70 | 37 min | 0.70 |
| 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 ÷ 1,448 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. Wells County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county