Power Out Map
– 0% of Dunn out 0 customers out in North Dakota

Power outage history

Dunn County North Dakota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Apr 24, 2022 19% of customers out · 90% back in 9.0 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.1 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 21hours Aug 23, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 27% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,089 Estimated from population · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Dunn's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Dunn, hours without power per customer

DunnUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 ND 2.1

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 23, 2022 Winter storm 389 19% 17 h 9.0 h 1.9k
Oct 31, 2024 No storm report 213 10% 6.5 h 6.5 h 1.4k
May 26, 2019 No storm report 294 14% 12 h 12 h 765
May 8, 2022 No storm report 289 14% 2.2 h 2.2 h 650
Aug 23, 2018 No storm report 68 3% 21 h – 612
May 8, 2022 No storm report 291 14% 2.0 h 7.8 h 515
Feb 16, 2021 No storm report 485 23% 1.8 h 1.0 h 508
Sep 21, 2019 No storm report 138 7% 3.8 h 3.8 h 508
Nov 13, 2024 No storm report 218 10% 2.2 h 2.0 h 488
May 26, 2022 No storm report 288 14% 1.5 h 30 min 428
Sep 29, 2024 No storm report 156 7% 3.0 h 1.8 h 404
Jul 30, 2024 No storm report 85 4% 4.2 h – 361

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

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When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Dunn from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 73%
  • Winter storm 17%
  • Thunderstorms 10%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Dunn

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Dakota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co Investor Owned 95 65 0.81 11.1 80k
Roughrider Electric Cooperativ Cooperative – – – 10.8 11k
McKenzie Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 111 111 0.93 8.0 5.4k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Dakota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Dakota counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 2,089 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →